Plant and Animal Classification

Which correctly compares a fish and a bird?

• Birds are warm-blooded and fish are warm-blooded.

• Birds breathe through lungs and fish breathe through gills.

• Birds have live births and fish lay eggs

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Warm-blooded animals always

• change their body temperatures based on their surroundings

• live in water.

• keep the same body temperature regardless of surroundings.

What example of animal is cold-blooded, lays eggs, and has scaly skin?

• whale

• alligator

• bird

• spider

Which is NOT true of a horse, cat, and pig.

• They are warm-blooded.

• They breathe through lungs.

• They have scales.

• They have live babies.

Amphibians DO NOT have which characteristic?

• Laying eggs

• Live on both land and water

• Are cold-blooded.

• Have scales

How is a jellyfish and shark different.

• A shark is the animal kingdom

• A shark has a backbone.

• A shark is cold-blooded

• Shark lives in water.

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Plants are classified as

• Vertebrates/Invertebrates

• Vascular/Non-vascular

• uni-cellular/multi-cellular

Scientists classify plants and animals into groups based on similar traits. What does classify mean?

• to group by using a a set of guides or rules.

• to find the differences between plants and animals.

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All living things belong to one of five major groups: Bacteria, Protist, Fungi, Plant, and Animal. These are known as

• Orders

• Phylums

• Kingdoms

Vertebrates are

• animals that do not have backbones.

• animals with backbones

• only cold-blooded.