Animals

Match the following

• animals that do not have a backbone

• endoskeleton

• to group or arrange things into categories based on similarities

• invertebrates

• animals that have a backbone

• vertebrates

• a hard outer covering that protects the body

• classify

• a support structure on the inside of the body

• exoskeleton

Match the following

• octopus

  snail

• echidoderm

• earthworm

• worm

• bees

  spiders

  crab

  praying mantis

• arthropod

• jellyfish

• mollusk

• starfish

• cnidarian

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Match the following

• jointed legs

  sectioned bodies

  exoskeleton

• sponge

• mostly live in water

  no bones

  some have hard shells

• arthropods

• live in water

  no brain or heart

  no bones

• mollusks

• live on ocean floors

  spiny skin

  no blood

• echinoderms

• openings at the top

  can live to be 200 years old

• cnidarians

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Match the following

• an animal that gets its body hear from the outside temperature

• cold-blooded

• live in water and land

  no arms or legs

  have 1-5 hearts

• worms

• an animal whose body temperature does not change much

• warm-blooded

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Match the following

• warm-blooded

  depend on mothers

  have fur/hair

  care for their babies

• reptiles

• cold-blooded

  live on water/land

  slippery skin

  swallow food whole

• fish

• warm-blooded

  hatch from eggs

  most fly

  have feathers

  live on all continents

• birds

• cold-blooded

  fresh and salt water

  breathe through gills

• mammals

• cold-blooded

  dry, scaly skin

  lay eggs

  eggs have leathery shell

• amphibians

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Match the following

• snakes

  turtles

  lizards

• mammals

• chicken

  flamingo

  penguin

  ostrich

  cardinal

• amphibians

• shark

  fish

  bass

  salmon

• birds

• frogs

  toads

  salamanders

  newts

• reptiles

• humans

  pigs

  monkeys

• fish

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2