Animal Classification Riddles

I am a process of organizing animal groups based on particular characteristics. What am I?

• Animal names

• Animal classification (taxonomy)

I am an animal whose body temperature is maintained by my surroundings. It is not constant. What am I?

• warm-blooded animal

• cold-blooded animal

I am an animal whose body temperature is constant and does not depend on the temperature of my surroundings. What am I?

• cold-blooded animal

• warm-blooded animal

I am an animal with a backbone. What am I?

• a vertebrate

• an invertebrate

I am an animal without a backbone. What am I?

• an invertebrate

• a vertebrate

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

I am an aquatic animal with gills and fins, and I have a body covered in scales. What am I?

• a frog

• a fish

I am an animal that can live on both land and in the water. What am I?

• a mammal

• a reptile

• an amphibian

I am the larva that hatches from the egg of an adult female frog. What am I?

• a fish

• a tadpole

• a reptile

Tags

NGSS.3-LS1-1

I secrete poison from my skin. What am I?

• a Tree Frog

• a Poison Dart Frog

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

I am an animal that hunts other animals for food. What am I?

• predator

• herbivore

• reptile