Classification and Heredity

A student develops a model for grouping animals that she observes in a park.

What are MOST LIKELY the names of the animal groups?

• fish and reptiles

• reptiles and birds

• fish and mammals

• reptiles and amphibians

A student draws three animals.

Which characteristics can the student use to classify the animals?

• no backbone, live in water, lay eggs

• backbone, live on land, breathe with lungs

• no backbone, scales on skin, breathe with gills

• backbone, smooth skin, breathe with gills and lungs

A student sorts animals into groups. He draws the animals in one group.

Which animal should the student remove from this group?

• fox

• bear

• hawk

• mouse

A student sorts animals into groups. He draws the animals in one group.

Which animal should the student remove from this group?

• fox

• bear

• hawk

• mouse

How are reptiles and fish alike?

• neither has scales

• both breathe with gills

• neither has a backbone

• both have body temperatures that change with their surroundings

Which features can a scientist use to identify an amphibian? Select 3

• has a backbone

• has no backbone

• has smooth, moist skin

• has scales or plates on skin

• breathes first with gills and then with lungs

A student finds the following animals in his garden: frog, snake, snail, and lizard.

He classifies the snail in one group and the other animals in a second group.

Which are the student's groups?

• amphibians, reptiles

• invertebrates, reptiles

• invertebrates, vertebrates

• animals with gills, animals with lungs

Ben has noticed an animal when he looks out his window at school.  The animal has a backbone, lives on land, bears live young, and has hair.  What is the classification for this animal?

• reptile
• bird
• mammal
• amphibian

Asia keeps seeing a small animal in her backyard.  She observed the animal has a backbone, four legs and a long tail, and its body is covered with scales.  What is the classification for this animal?

• bird
• mammal
• reptile
• amphibian

An animal has fur and feeds milk to its young. How should this animal be classified?

• As an invertebrate

• As an amphibian

• As a mammal

• As a reptile