Classification Pre Quiz

What is the name of the process of sorting living things into groups based on similarities?

• Ordering

• Classification

• Sorting out

• Species

What is the name of a scientist who classifies living things ?

• Botanist

• Astronomer

• Taxonomists

• Microbiologist

Match the following:

• Bird

• 
• Mammal

• 
• Reptile

• 
• Insect

• 
• Mammal

• 

What classifies a mammal?

• warm blooded

• scales

• fur or hair

• lay eggs

What classifies a reptile?

• Most shed their skin

• They all have a backbone (are vertebrates)

• cold blooded

• They have fur

Taxonomy means to classify living things

• True
• False

What classifies a bird?

• They are warm blooded

• They are cold blooded

• Feathers

• Have hard shelled eggs

What classifies an insect?

• vertebrates (have a backbone)

• Three body segments

• Some have an exoskeleton

• Invertebrates (have no backbone)