Classify Plants and Animals

Animals with backbones are called

• vertebrates

• invertebrates

• vascular

Animals without backbones are called

• vertebrates

• invertebrates

• nonvascular

What does it mean to classify?

• An animal without a backbone.

• To arrange or sort objects according to their properties or characteristics.

• How nutrients are transported.

Is this statement true or false? Scientist classify plants based on how they reproduce and how they transport nutrients.

• True

• False

Are there more vertebrates or invertebrates?

• Vertebrates

• Invertebrates

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Plants that pass nutrients through a tube like structure are

• vascular

• non-vascular

Plants that pass nutrients from cell to cell are

• vascular

• non vascular

Use gills to breathe, live in water, usually lay eggs

• mammals

• fish

• amphibians

• reptiles

Smooth skin, live in water and on land, hatch from eggs

• fish

• mammals

• amphibians

• reptiles

Covered with scales, have lungs, cold blooded

• Fish

• Bird

• Reptile

• Amphibian

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