Science animal classification and plants 5th grade

Which of the following characteristics is used when determining whether to place an animal in the vertebrate group or the invertebrate group?

• Ability to walk on two legs

• Presence of a spinal cord

• Method of respiration (lungs or gills)

• Flow of blood through the body

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What questions can be used to sort fish, such as a bass, from amphibians, such as an adult frog?

• Does the organism use gills to breathe?

• Does the organism eat insects?

• Is the organism able to move around?

• Does the organism lay eggs?

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

An organism with a backbone

• Amphibian

• Vertebrate

• Mammal

• Fish

A cold-blooded vertebrate with fins and gills that lives in water.

• Amphibian

• Vertebrate

• Mammal

• Fish

Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young.

• Amphibian

• Vertebrate

• Mammal

• Fish

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which of the following contains the largest group of organisms?

• Vertebrates

• Invertebrates

True or False:

All vertebrates lay eggs to hatch their young.

• True

• False

Which of the following would be a synonym (word with the same of similar meaning) as classify?

• add

• delete

• group

• remove

The image above is an example of a(n)

• amphibian

• invertebrate

• mammal

• reptile

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NGSS.4-LS1-1

Which of the following are classifications of plants?

• Vertebrate and invertebrate

• seed producer and non-seed producer

• mammal and reptile

• none of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2