Vertebrates

What are vertebrates?

• Animals with a backbone
• Animals without a backbone

There are five categories of vertebrates.  Which one is not a vertebrate?

• Mammals
• Birds
• Arthropods
• Reptiles

My body is moist and smooth, I lay eggs, and live in or near the water.  What am I?

• Amphibian
• Reptile
• Bird
• Fish

My body is warm, I have fur, feed my young on milk, and have live births.  What am I?

• Reptile
• Bird
• Mammal
• Fish

I am covered in dry scales and I lay eggs.  What am I?

• Mammal
• Fish
• Amphibian
• Reptile

My body is cold, am covered in scales, use gills to breathe under water, and I lay eggs.  What am I?

• Fish
• Mammal
• Reptile
• Amphibian

Which are the 5 groups of vertebrate animals?

• Mammals, fish, amphibians and sharks
• Mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians
• Lions, tuna, eagle, crocodile and frog
• Humans, fish, birds and reptiles

What animals breathe with their lungs?

• Mammals and birds
• Fish and chips
• Mammals, birds, reptiles and adult amphibians
• Humans, birds and sharks

Which of these animals breathe through their gills?

• Fish
• Fish and baby amphibians
• Mammals, adult amphibians, reptiles and birds

Which animal can breathe with their lungs and also through their moist skin?

• Amphibians
• Fish
• Reptiles