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Unit 3 Animals

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Animals are divided into which two main groups?

a)

Vertebrates

b)

Invertebrates

c)

Reptiles

d)

Fish

2.

All vertebrates have what?

a)

Teeth

b)

A backbone and an internal skeleton

c)

Feet

d)

Lungs

3.

Living things that obtain energy by eating other living things are called....

a)

Omnivores

b)

Consumers

c)

Carnivores

d)

Herbivores

4.

Which group of animals only eat plants?

a)

Carnivores

b)

Herbivores

c)

Omnivores

d)

Reptiles

5.

Which group of animals only eat meat?

a)

Carnivores

b)

Omnivores

c)

Herbivores

d)

Humans

6.

Which group of animals eat both plants and meat?

a)

Carnivores

b)

Omnivores

c)

Herbivores

d)

Birds

7.

Animals such as sheep and cows have a special way of digesting food. What are these animals called?

a)

Fish

b)

Ruminants

c)

Omnivores

d)

Goats

8.

True or false? Fish use gills to take in oxygen from the water.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Mammals, birds, and reptiles take in oxygen from the ________.

a)

water

b)

air

c)

moist skin

d)

metamorphosis

10.

True or false? When amphibians are young they take in oxygen from the air.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

During metamorphosis, amphibians gills close and they develop ________.

a)

gills

b)

lungs

c)

skin

d)

tails

12.

This group of vertebrates gives birth to live offspring and the babies drink their mother's milk.

a)

Mammals

b)

Reptiles

c)

Amphibians

d)

Fish

13.

Which group of animals can also breathe through their moist skin?

a)

Reptiles

b)

Mammals

c)

Amphibians

d)

Fish

14.

When an animal reproduces it creates a new living thing which is similar to itself. What do we call this?

a)

Extinct

b)

Life cycle

c)

Offspring

d)

Viviparous

15.

What do we call animals that lay eggs?

a)

Viviparous

b)

Oviparous

c)

Ovoviviparous

d)

Frogs

16.

What is the most important thing about viviparous animals?

a)

They lay eggs

b)

The babies drink their mother's milk

c)

They have an exoskeleton

d)

The echidna is an example of a viviparous animal

17.

Ovoviviparous animals produce eggs. These eggs......

a)

develop and hatch inside the mother.

b)

grow and develop in nests.

c)

are buried in the sand and later hatch.

d)

grow and develop underwater.

18.

All invertebrates share one characteristic. What is it?

a)

They have an exoskeleton.

b)

They do not have a backbone.

c)

They have soft bodies.

d)

They have shells.

19.

Which group of invertebrates has an exoskeleton?

a)

Molluscs

b)

Echinoderms

c)

Sponges

d)

Arthropods

20.

True or false? Arachnids have 5 pairs of legs and up to 8 eyes.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Which group of arthropods have long, thin, segmented bodies?

a)

Insects

b)

Crustaceans

c)

Myriapods

d)

Arachnids

22.

Insects have three body parts: a head, a thorax and an ________.

a)

antennae

b)

exoskeleton

c)

abdomen

d)

cephalothorax

23.

Crustaceans have five pairs of legs and ________ antennae.

a)

two

b)

four

c)

five

d)

six

24.

Gastropods, bivalves and cephalopods are part of which invertebrate group?

a)

Annelids

b)

Molluscs

c)

Sponges

d)

Echinoderms

25.

Which invertebrate group is covered with a hard, spiny skin?

a)

Sponges

b)

Myriapods

c)

Echinoderms

d)

Annelids

26.

Which invertebrate group has a long, soft body with moist skin?

a)

Amphibians

b)

Annelids

c)

Sponges

d)

Cnidarians

27.

This group of invertebrates has no muscles and no nervous or circulatory system. They are very simple.

a)

Cnidarians

b)

Bivalves

c)

Sponges

d)

Echinoderms

28.

This group of invertebrates live in the sea and they have a soft, jelly-like body. The jellyfish is one example.

a)

Cnidarians

b)

Sponges

c)

Annelids

d)

Molluscs