Animal Kingdom Classification Quiz

The model below illustrates how animals are sorted into groups. What labels could be added to the empty red boxes in the model to help differentiate the groups?

• Warm blooded and Cold blooded

• Animals and Insects

• Vertebrate and Invertebrate

• Single celled and Multi-celled

Using the information in the table below, which one of the following is a vertebrate?

• Iguana

• Grasshopper

• Jellyfish

• Spider

Which one of the plants described below could be classified as one of the plants in the table?

• Plant a – Does not produce seeds; has roots, stems and flowers

• Plant B – Produces seeds; has roots, stems, and leaves but no flowers

• Plant C: Does not produce seeds; has roots, stems, and leaves, and has flowers.

• Plant D: Produces seeds; has no roots, stems, leaves, or flowers.

The model below demonstrates how plants are sorted into groups. What labels could be added to help separate the groups?

• Nonflowering and Flowering

• Non-seeded and Seeded

• Vascular and Nonvascular

• No chlorophyll and Chlorophyll

Mary asked herself questions about the physical traits of the elephant in the photograph below. Which question helped her determine the elephant’s acquired physical trait?

• What color are the eyes of the elephant’s parents?

• How long is the elephant’s trunk?

• When did the elephant’s tusk break?

• How big are the ears of the elephant’s parents?

The dolphin inherited all of these traits from its parents EXCEPT ___________.

• its ability to swim fast.

• its broad, flat tail.

• its long, rounded snout.

• its blowhole for breathing.

• its scars from a motor boat.

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Which of the following is the best question to ask to help figure out if barking is an instinct or a learned behavior?

• Do the puppies bark from the time they are born?

• Does the puppies’ barking help them find food?

• Do other animals bark?

• Does the barking mean that there is a predator around?

This picture is a reptile or amphibian?

Which of the following is a characteristic of mammals?

• They do not have backbones.

• They give birth to live young.

• Their body temperature changes depending on their surroundings.

• They are single celled organisms.

Plants receive water through a ______ system.

• Vascular

• Muscular

• Vertebrate

• Photosynthesis