Animal Classification Quiz

Zoe, Anika, and Grace are helping to organize a collection of colorful buttons. To ______________ means to sort things into groups based on their features or characteristics. What are they doing?

• Classify

• Multiply

• Describe

• Ignore

Tags

NGSS.2-PS1-1

Mason and Avery are on a nature walk and spot an animal with a backbone! They wonder, animals who have a backbone are called ______________. Can you help them out?

• Invertebrates

• Mammals

• Vertebrates

• Reptiles

Grace and Ethan are exploring the animal kingdom! They spot some creatures without a backbone. What are these animals called?

• Vertebrates

• Invertebrates

• Amphibians

• Birds

Samuel and Ava are curious about animals! They notice some animals are covered with hair or fur and drink milk as babies. What are these animals called?

• Reptiles

• Birds

• Mammals

• Fish

Aria and Maya are on a nature walk and spot an animal with feathers that lays eggs. They wonder, animals like this belong to which group?

• Mammals

• Birds

• Fish

• Reptiles

Priya and William are exploring a pond and notice some creatures that can swim underwater and also hop on land! Animals like these, that live part of their life in water and part on land, are called ______________.

• Fish

• Reptiles

• Amphibians

• Mammals

Sophia and Liam are exploring the animal kingdom! They spot some creatures with shiny scales that breathe with gills. Which group do these animals belong to?

• Fish

• Birds

• Mammals

• Amphibians

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Charlotte and Aiden are exploring the animal kingdom! They spot some cold-blooded creatures that breathe air and have skin covered with scales or bony plates. What type of animals did they find?

• Mammals

• Reptiles

• Birds

• Fish

Abigail and David are exploring a garden. They notice ferns and apple trees. What do ferns have that apple trees do not have?

• Stems

• Roots

• Flowers

• Spores

Using this dichotomous key, identify the name of the circled Fish, J.

• peacock flounder
• band-tail puffer
• trumpet fish
• spotted goat fish

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2