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Animal classification

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 54mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of animal spends its entire life under water, has fins, and breathes using gills
a)
amphibian
b)
fish
c)
bird
d)
reptile
2.
What type of animal has dry scaly skin and lays its eggs on land?
a)
fish
b)
amphibian
c)
reptile
d)
mammal
3.
What is the only type of animal that has feathers?
a)
bird
b)
mammal
c)
amphibian
d)
reptiles
4.
What type of animal has fur and feeds its young with milk?
a)
birds
b)
reptiles
c)
amphibians
d)
mammals
5.
What type of animal spends part of its life in water and part on land and lays its eggs in water?
a)
amphibians
b)
reptiles
c)
birds
d)
fish
6.
Which type of animal goes through a metamorphosis (body change)? 
a)
bird
b)
mammal
c)
reptile
d)
amphibian
7.
What classification of animals do humans belong to?
a)
fish
b)
mammals
c)
reptiles
d)
amphibians
8.
Which animal is warm blooded?
a)
reptiles
b)
fish
c)
mammals 
d)
amphibians
9.
Cold blooded animals
a)
Make their own heat
b)
Are the temperature of their surroundings
c)
Have blue blood
d)
Are a type of plant
10.
This is a 
a)
bird
b)
fish
c)
mammal
d)
reptile
11.
This is a 
a)
Reptile
b)
fish
c)
amphibian
d)
mammal
12.
This is a 
a)
Reptile
b)
Fish
c)
Mammal
d)
Amphibian
13.
This is a 
a)
Reptile
b)
Fish
c)
Mammal
d)
Amphibian
14.
This is a 
a)
Reptile
b)
Bird
c)
Mammal
d)
Fish
15.

Which group of animals are warm blooded?

a)

Birds and Mammals

b)

Reptiles and Amphibians

c)

Mammals and Fish

16.

Check all the animal groups that are cold blooded

a)

Reptile

b)

Mammal

c)

Amphibian

d)

Fish

e)

Bird

17.

Which animal group drinks its mother's milk?

a)

Reptiles

b)

Birds

c)

Mammals

18.

Which animal group is covered in feathers?

a)

Amphibians

b)

Birds

c)

Fish

19.

Which animal group spends its entire life in water?

a)

Fish

b)

Reptiles

c)

Amphibians

20.

Which animal groups hatch from eggs?

a)

Only Birds

b)

Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fish

c)

Mammals and Reptiles

21.

Which animal group has smooth, moist skin?

a)

Reptiles

b)

Birds

c)

Amphibians

22.

Which animal group does a Lizard belong to?

a)

Amphibian

b)

Fish

c)

Reptile

23.

Which group do frogs belong to?

a)

Reptiles

b)

Birds

c)

Mammals

d)

Amphibians

24.

Which one of these organisms is a reptile?

a)

Hawk

b)

Grasshopper

c)

Mushroom

d)

Crocodile

25.
Which type of animal is this?
a)
Amphibian
b)
Reptile
c)
Fish
d)
No clue
26.
What is the body covering for mammals?
a)
scales
b)
exoskeleton
c)
fur/hair
d)
dry scales
27.
a)
mammal
b)
fish
c)
reptile
d)
bird
28.
a)
reptile
b)
mammal
c)
fish
d)
bird
29.
What kind of animal is a zebra? 
a)
reptile
b)
insect
c)
mammal
d)
fish
30.
Which is a characteristic of snakes?
a)
Snakes have slimy skin
b)
Snakes use lungs to breathe
c)
Snakes do not have a backbone
d)
Snakes are warm-blooded
31.
Which statement about animals is FALSE?
a)
Animals use sunlight to produce their own food
b)
Animals are multicelled
c)
Animals have the ability to reproduce
d)
Animal cells have cell membranes
32.

What kind of animal is a horse?

a)

Reptile

b)

Mammal

c)

Amphibian

d)

Invertebrate

33.

Which animal is born with gills but grows lungs when it gets older?

a)

fish

b)

frog

c)

spider

d)

duck

34.

How are birds and reptiles alike?

a)

They both have beaks.

b)

They both have scales.

c)

They both have feathers.

d)

They both lay eggs.

35.

Which is a living thing?

a)
b)
c)
d)
36.

Mammals have to.... (select all that apply)

a)

have hair or fur

b)

the ability to drink their mother's milk

c)

have scales

d)

breathe air

e)

be able to make their own body heat

37.

True or false:

YOU are a mammal.

a)

True

b)

False

38.

True or False?

All FISH are mammals.

a)

True

b)

False

39.
Why are fish classified as vertebrates? 
a)
They can live in water only
b)
They have scales
c)
They have a backbone
d)
All of the above
40.
Why are living things sorted into groups? 
a)
To make it easy to sell them
b)
To make them easier to study
c)
To make them easier to look at
d)
All of the above
41.
How would you classify a warm blooded organism that has wings and does not lay eggs? 
a)
birds
b)
reptiles
c)
mammals
d)
fish
42.
Which is a difference between a warm blooded and a cold blooded organism? 
a)
cold blooded live in cold places
b)
warm blooded need it warm
c)
cold blooded get their heat from the sun
d)
warm blooded get their heat from the sun
43.
How would you classify the following organism?
1. They breathe with lungs
2. Their babies hatch from eggs
3. They are cold blooded
4. They have dry and tough skin
a)
fish
b)
reptile
c)
amphibian
d)
bird
44.
Classify the following organism that Nick discovered: 
1. does not have lungs
2. lays eggs
3. lives only in water
4. has scales 
a)
mammal
b)
fish
c)
amphibian
d)
bird
45.
a)

reptile

b)

amphibian

c)

fish

d)

insect

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