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Animals-Pre Test

Total questions: 67

Worksheet time: 57mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A fish's body is covered in what?
a)
feathers
b)
scales
c)
fur
d)
spikes
2.
What animal has wings, a beak, and can fly?
a)
dog
b)
cow
c)
bird
d)
mosquito
3.
A frog spends time on land and in the water. What kind of animal is a frog?
a)
amphibian
b)
bird
c)
mammal
d)
fish
4.
What kind of animals have scaly skin, vertebra, and are cold-blooded?
a)
birds
b)
mammals
c)
reptiles
d)
insects
5.
What animals have vertebrae and use gills to breathe?
a)
birds
b)
mammals
c)
fish
d)
insects
6.
Which describes an insect?
a)
antennae, gills, wings, 6 legs
b)
gills, 3 body parts, wings
c)
wings, 6 legs, scales, gills
d)
antennae, 3 body parts, wings, 6 legs
7.
Which type of animals gives birth and nurses their babies with milk?
a)
fish
b)
mammal 
c)
bird
d)
reptile
8.
1. What is an adaptation?
a)
A feature or behavior that helps an animal survie.
b)
The food that an animal eats.
c)
How energy moves in a food web.
9.
This is a period of deep sleep that occurs in some animals when outside temperatures are cold: ______
a)
hibernation
b)
migration
10.
Why do some animals hibernate?
a)
The cold weather makes them sleepy.
b)
Their food supply is smaller in the winter.
c)
They have no one to play with.
11.
An animal's color or pattern that helps it blend into its surroundings
a)
Environment 
b)
Mimicry
c)
Camouflage
12.

I am cold-blooded, covered with dry scales, have a backbone, breathes with lungs, and lay eggs.


Which animal group am I?

a)

Amphibians

b)

Reptiles

c)

Mammals

d)

Birds

13.

I am cold-blooded, covered with wet smooth skin, have a backbone, lay eggs, and breathe with gills when I'm young and lungs when I'm an adult?


Which animal group am I?

a)

Insects

b)

Mammals

c)

Reptiles

d)

Amphibians

14.

I am warm-blooded, covered with feathers, have a backbone, lay eggs, have wings and beaks, and I breathe with lungs.


Which animal group am I?

a)

Fish

b)

Insects

c)

Birds

d)

Amphibians

15.

I am cold-blooded, covered in scales, have a backbone and fins, lay eggs, and I breathe with gills.


Which animal group am I?

a)

Fish

b)

Mammals

c)

Reptiles

d)

Amphibians

16.

I am cold-blooded, covered with an exoskeleton, have 3 body parts (head, thorax, abdomen), have 6 legs, and I lay eggs.


Which animal group am I?

a)

Amphibians

b)

Insects

c)

Birds

d)

Insects and Reptiles

17.

We both go through metamorphosis.


Which 2 animal groups are we?

a)

Insects & Amphibians

b)

Insects & Fish

c)

Amphibians & Mammals

d)

Amphibians & Birds

18.

We both breathe with our lungs.


Which 2 groups are we?

a)

Birds & Fish

b)

Mammals & Birds

c)

Fish & Reptiles

d)

Fish & Mammals

19.

Our animal group has frogs, toads, salamanders, and Newts.


Which animal group are we in?

a)

Reptiles

b)

Insects

c)

Amphibians

d)

Fish

20.

What is something that covers a reptile?

a)

Gills

b)

Feathers

c)

Smooth, wet skin

d)

Dry, bumpy skin

21.

I am warm-blooded, I feed milk to my babies, and I have a backbone.


Which animal could I be?

a)
b)
c)
d)
22.
A biome is......
a)
Like a snowglobe that you shake and can see different types of animals.
b)
A large region of earth with a certain type of climate
c)
An area of earth only found in the United States.
d)
A community of living things.
23.
The climate in a tropical rain forest can be described as
a)
cold and wet 
b)
warm and dry 
c)
cold and dry 
d)
warm and wet 
24.
A Biome covered with grasses is called....
a)
Grasslands
b)
Africa
c)
Meadow
d)
Forest
25.
This is the most important thing that makes each biome different from each other.
a)
Animals
b)
Location
c)
Climate
d)
People
26.
The polar bear's white fur allows it to hide in the cold arctic. This adaptation is called________________.
a)
White on white
b)
Camouflage
c)
Color matching
d)
behavioral adaptation 
27.
What adaptation does this squirrel have that allows it to glide through the air?
a)
Extra skin under the arms and legs to capture air as it falls.
b)
Big ears to capture are as it falls
c)
Small eyes to see where it will land
d)
A short thin tail
28.
What is the function (job) of fish gills?
a)
To absorb water from the water
b)
To make the fish faster
c)
To make the fish lighter
d)
To absorb oxygen from the water
29.
The feet of this bird tell us that this animal can...
a)
Run fast
b)
Swim 
c)
Fly fast
d)
Climb rocks 
30.
What adaptation most likely helps this bird fly?
a)
A strong beak
b)
Small feet
c)
Hollow bones 
d)
The color of the bird
31.
Birds migrate during the winter to less cold areas. What type of adaptation is this?
a)
Behavioral 
b)
Physiological 
32.

What factors will cause a change in an ecosystem's structure?

a)

Number of organisms competing for the same food source

b)

Amount of food sources available

c)

Amount of space given in an ecosystem

d)

All of the above would cause a change in the structure of an ecosystem

33.

A wolf hunts for deer in an ecosystem. Identify the correct relationship below.

a)

Both organisms are producers.

b)

Both organisms are scavengers.

c)

Wolf is the prey and the deer is the predator.

d)

Wolf is the predator and the deer is the prey.

34.

The clownfish lives among the tentacles of tropical sea anemones. The stinging tentacles of the anemone protect the clownfish from predators. The mucus on the fish protects it from the tentacles. In turn, the anemone is provided food from the predators that approach the anemone to eat the clownfish. What type of relationship does this example describe?

a)

Mutually beneficial

b)

Predator & Prey

c)

Consumer & Producer

d)

Competition

35.

A robin eats a worm. The worm would be an example of

a)

prey

b)

predator

c)

herbivore

d)

scavenger

36.

The fox in the food web would be considered a

a)

producer

b)

consumer

c)

scavenger

d)

decomposer

37.

How many food sources does the grasshopper have in the food web?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

38.

When a tick attaches to a dog, the tick will suck the blood of the dog and can transfer diseases. This is an example of what type of relationship?

a)

competition

b)

mutualism

c)

parasitism

39.

Sloths have two extra neck vertebrae that allow them to turn their heads almost all the way around.

a)

Physical Adaptation

b)

Behavioral Adaptation

40.

Stingrays partially bury themselves on the ocean floor so that their predators can't see them.

a)

Physical Adaptation

b)

Behavioral Adaptation

41.

Red-tailed hawks have great eyesight. They can see a mouse from 100 feet in the air.

a)

Physical Adaptation

b)

Behavioral Adaptation

42.

Brown bears can spend four to six months a year in a deep sleep in their dens. This adaptation allows them to survive when there is very little food.

a)

Physical Adaptation

b)

Behavioral Adaptation

43.

Pigs roll in mud to cool off when it's hot outside.

a)

Physical Adaptation

b)

Behavioral Adaptation

44.

Porcupines have needle-like spikes called quills. When an animal attacks a porcupine, its quills will detach and hurt the attacker.

a)

Physical Adaptation

b)

Behavioral Adaptation

45.
Which of the following is an instinct?
a)
riding a bike
b)
building a nest
c)
sitting on command
d)
reading
46.
What do you call an inherited BEHAVIOR?
a)
inherited trait
b)
learned behavior
c)
instinct
d)
dominant gene
47.
What is NOT an example of an inherited TRAIT?
a)
eye color
b)
tongue rolling
c)
handedness
d)
language
48.
Having dark hair like dad 
a)
learned behavior
b)
inherited trait 
49.
Which is an example of a learned behavior?
a)
blinking
b)
riding a bike
c)
swallowing
d)
crying
50.

What is an inherited trait?

a)

A scar

b)

Characteristics passed from parents to offspring.

51.

Instinct inherited trait or learned behavior? Curly hair

a)

Instinct

b)

Inherited trait

c)

Learned behavior

52.
Instinct or Learned?
Turtles migrate to the same beach to lay eggs.
a)
Instinct
b)
Learned
53.

When monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico for the winter it is because of__.

a)

instinct

b)

learning

54.
Invertebrates are animals
a)
with a backbone
b)
without a backbone
55.
What am I?
a)
Mollusk
b)
Annelid
c)
Arthropod
d)
Cnidarian
56.
What am I?
a)
Arthropod
b)
Cnidarian
c)
Mollusk
d)
Porifera
57.
I am spiny, have a water vascular system with tube feet, radial symmetry, and am called a brittle star.
a)
Mullosk
b)
Arthropod
c)
Echinoderm
d)
Cnidarian
58.
I am an arachnid, have four pairs of legs, and a body with two sections.
a)
Echinoderm
b)
Arthropod
c)
Annelid
d)
Porifera
59.
I have a round body divided into segments and my digestive tract has two openings.
a)
Echinoderm
b)
Cnidarian
c)
Annelid
d)
Mollusk
60.
I have a soft-body, a hard shell, and live on land and water.  What am I?
a)
Mollusk
b)
Arthropod
c)
Echinoderm
d)
Cnidarian
61.
I have spiny skin, water vascular system with tube feet, and a radial symmetry.  I am a sea anemone.
a)
Arthropod
b)
Cnidarian
c)
Echinoderm
d)
Mollusk
62.
I have a digestive cavity with one opening, and have tentacles.  I am a hydra.
a)
Echinoderm
b)
Cnidarian
c)
Arthropod
d)
Mollusk
63.
I have a hard exoskeleton, a segmented body, pairs of jointed appendages, and live on land and water.  I am a crab.  What is my phylum?
a)
Mollusk
b)
Arthropod
c)
Echinoderm
d)
Cnidarian
64.
I have four pairs of legs and a body divided into two sections.  I am an arachnid.
a)
Echinoderm
b)
Cnidarian
c)
Mollusk
d)
Arthropod
65.
What phylum am I in?
a)
Echinoderm
b)
Cnidarian
c)
Mollusk
d)
Annelid
66.
What Phylum am I in?
a)
Echinoderm
b)
Arthropod
c)
Mollusk
d)
Annelid
67.
In what phylum am I?
a)
Annelid
b)
Mollusk
c)
Echinoderm
d)
Cnidarian