WorksheetsComprehension 4 - Vertebrates
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 36mins
All animals can be divided into two main types - those with backbones and those without backbones. Animals that have backbones are called vertebrates while those without backbones are called invertebrates.
Q: Which of the following pairings are correct? (Choose 2)
Animals with backbones - vertebrates
Animals with backbones - invertebrates
Animals without backbones - vertebrates
Animals without backbones - invertebrates
All animals can be divided into two main types - those with backbones and those without backbones. Animals that have backbones are called vertebrates while those without backbones are called invertebrates.
Q: Which type do you think humans belong to?
Vertebrates - with backbones
Invertebrates - without backbones
Neither
Both
There are more invertebrates than vertebrates. This is quite true as invertebrates include worms, crabs, prawns, clams, snails, octopuses, spiders and all kinds of insects!
Q: Which of the following statements is TRUE?
Animals with backbones are more than animals without backbones.
We can find more animals without backbones on Earth.
Both types of animals are equal in number.
Scientists are not sure which type of animals have the higher number.
There are more invertebrates than vertebrates. This is quite true as invertebrates include worms, crabs, prawns, clams, snails, octopuses, spiders and all kinds of insects!
Q: Which of the following animals is NOT an invertebrate?
grasshopper
garden snail
frog
squid
What about vertebrates? Well, there are 5 main types of vertebrates. They are the fishes, the amphibians, the reptiles, the birds and the mammals. All of them have backbones.
Q: Which of the following is NOT a vertebrate?
eagle
rabbit
crocodile
octopus
The first type of vertebrates are the fishes, such as salmon, piranha, goldfish, and even sharks and rays. They were the first type of animals that developed backbones long ago.
Q: Which of the following statements is FALSE?
All types of fishes have backbones.
The first animals with backbones came from the waters.
Sharks and rays do not have backbones.
Swordfish and tuna have backbones.
As some fishes slowly move to dry land, some evolved into amphibians. The amphibians are the second type of animals that have backbones. They include frogs, toads and salamanders.
Q: Which do you think is NOT an amphibian?
As the amphibians evolved to have dry skins, they became the reptiles. They did this by developing scales. Their eggs also have hard shells so the eggs won't dry out. Reptiles include lizards, crocodiles, snakes, turtles and tortoises.
Q: Which of the following is NOT a reptile?
Dinosaurs were reptiles too. Some of them developed feathers and became birds. Birds are the most colourful vertebrates on earth.
Q: Which of the following animals are birds?
vultures
turkeys
bats
ostriches
penguins
Birds still have to lay eggs but the next group of animals change their way into giving birth. They also feed their babies nutritious milk. They are called mammals. We humans are mammals.
Q: Which of the following is TRUE?
We humans have to lay eggs.
Birds are mammals.
Birds can feed their babies milk.
Mammals give birth to babies.
Mammals have so many sizes, from the big elephants, lions, giraffes and horses to the small meerkats, squirrels and mice. All mammals can maintain their body temperature and almost all have fur or hair on their body.
Q: Which is NOT a feature of mammals?
All mammals are big.
All mammals can maintain body temperature.
Most mammals have fur/hair.
Some mammals are small.
We humans are part of one special group of mammals called the primates. Primates, like monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees, are some of the most intelligent animals on earth. After learning to use fire and speech, humans became the most powerful species on Earth.
Q: Which of the following is FALSE?
Humans learned to use fire.
Humans learned to talk.
Humans are not as intelligent as chimpanzees.
Primates are mammals.
