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Classification of Living Things (Easy)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following groups of animals have backbones?

a)

Mammals

b)

Fish

c)

Insects

d)

Amphibians

2.

What characteristic do birds have?

a)

Hair on their bodies

b)

Breathe with gills

c)

Feathers and beak

d)

Dry skin

3.

What characteristics do fish have?

a)

Wet skin

b)

Breathe with lungs

c)

Breathe with gills

d)

Covered with scales

4.

What characteristics do mammals have?

a)

Dry skin

b)

Breathe with lungs

c)

Feathers and beak

d)

Feed young with milk

5.

What characteristic do reptiles have?

a)

Breathe with skin

b)

Pair of wings

c)

Wet skin

d)

Breathe with lungs

6.

What characteristics do amphibians have?

a)

Hard scales

b)

Breathe with skin

c)

Moist skin

d)

Pair of wings

7.

What characteristics do insects have?

a)

Three pairs of legs

b)

Two pairs of antennae

c)

Some have one/two pairs of wings

d)

Bodies made up of two parts

8.

What are the three parts that make up all insects?

a)

Abdomen

b)

Wings

c)

Thorax

d)

Head

9.

Plants can be classified into...

a)

Land plants and flowering plants

b)

Water plants and land plants

c)

Flowering plants and non-flowering plants

d)

Non-flowering plants and water plants

10.

Which animal doesn't belong to the same group as others?

a)

Monkey

b)

Dolphin

c)

Shark

d)

Whale

11.

What type of animal spends a part of its life in water and a part on land?

a)

Birds

b)

Amphibians

c)

Mammals

d)

Fish

12.

How are reptiles and amphibians similiar?

a)

They both have scales

b)

They both have backbones

c)

They both breathe with gills

d)

They both have moist skin

13.

Which animal doesn't belong to the same group as others?

a)

Crocodile

b)

Snake

c)

Frog

d)

Turtle

14.

What characteristics do flowering plants have?

a)

Flowers

b)

Fruits

c)

Spores

d)

Seeds

15.

What characteristics do non-flowering plants have?

a)

Spores

b)

Fruits

c)

Seeds

d)

Flowers

16.

Classify the following organism:


  1. They breathe with lungs
  2. They live on land
  3. Their babies hatch from eggs
a)

Mammals

b)

Reptiles

c)

Birds

d)

Fish

17.

Which two groups of animals are least likely to survive in a dry desert environment?

a)

Amphibians

b)

Reptiles

c)

Fish

d)

Insects

18.

What do all birds and mammals have in common?

a)

They both have legs

b)

They both have hair

c)

They both have lungs

d)

They both lay eggs

19.

Which plant doesn't belong to the same group as others?

a)

Fern

b)

Sunflower

c)

Lily

d)

Daffodil

20.

Which of the following plants reproduce by spores?

a)

Moss

b)

Pine tree

c)

Flame tree

d)

Fern