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Animal Classification

Total questions: 44

Worksheet time: 44mins

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.

What classification of animals do humans belong to?

a)

fish

b)

mammals

c)

reptiles

d)

amphibians

7.
This is a 
a)
Reptile
b)
fish
c)
amphibian
d)
mammal
8.
This is a 
a)
Reptile
b)
Fish
c)
Mammal
d)
Amphibian
9.
This is a 
a)
Reptile
b)
Fish
c)
Mammal
d)
Amphibian
10.

This class does NOT breath air with lungs.

a)

Mammals

b)

Fish

c)

Bird

d)

Reptiles

11.

This class starts out with gills and then transitions to lungs.

a)

Bird

b)

Reptiles

c)

Amphibians

d)

Fish

12.

This Class hatches from leathery eggs

a)

Bird

b)

Mammal

c)

Reptile

d)

Fish

13.

This class hatches from brittle-shell eggs.

a)

Bird

b)

Mammal

c)

Reptile

d)

Amphibian

14.
Which type of animal is this?
a)
Amphibian
b)
Reptile
c)
Fish
d)
No clue
15.
What is the body covering for mammals?
a)
scales
b)
exoskeleton
c)
fur/hair
d)
dry scales
16.
a)
bird
b)
reptile
c)
mammal
d)
fish
17.
a)
mammal
b)
fish
c)
reptile
d)
bird
18.
a)
reptile
b)
mammal
c)
fish
d)
bird
19.
All vertebrates have
a)
no internal skeleton
b)
gills
c)
radial symmetry
d)
endoskeleton
20.

A snail, octopus, oyster, and clam are

a)

arthropods

b)

echinoderms

c)

amphibians

d)

mollusks

21.

Which group of animals are filter-feeders that have many pores?

a)

amphibians

b)

echinoderms

c)

arthropods

d)

sponges

22.

One example of a segmented worm is

a)

black widow spider

b)

octopus

c)

snail

d)

earthworm

23.

A crab is in which group of arthropods?

a)

arachnids

b)

crustaceans

c)

insects

d)

echinoderms

24.

What group of animals has the following characteristics?

-ectothermic

-live in "2 worlds"

-metamorphosis

-lay eggs in water

-born with gills, develop lungs

a)

reptiles

b)

amphibians

c)

echinoderms

d)

arthropods

25.

Arthropods have which of the following characteristics?

a)

filter-feeders

b)

metamorphosis

c)

segmented bodies

d)

simplest organism with nervous system

26.

What classification of animals are vertebrae (have a backbone)?

a)

birds only

b)

reptiles only

c)

reptiles and birds but not mammals and fish

d)

mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and birds

27.
Which animal is warm blooded?
a)
reptiles
b)
fish
c)
mammals 
d)
amphibians
28.
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
29.
This is a 
a)
Reptile
b)
Bird
c)
Mammal
d)
Fish
30.

Which of the following is in the same group as a crab?

a)

squid

b)

leech

c)

spider

d)

sponge

31.

Which of the following animals has skin without scales?

a)

dolphin

b)

snake

c)

lizard

d)

fish

32.

Lungs and moist skin are characteristics of which of the following vertebrates?

a)

amphibians

b)

fish

c)

reptiles

d)

lizards

33.

Which of the following animals eat only plant materials?

a)

carnivores

b)

herbivores

c)

omnivores

d)

endotherms

34.

Is a shark a mammal, reptile or fish?

a)

reptile

b)

fish

c)

mammal

35.

Is a whale a reptile, mammal, bird or fish?

a)

reptile

b)

mammal

c)

fish

d)

bird

36.

Is a bat a bird or a mammal and how do you know?

a)

Bird because it flies.

b)

Mammal because it has hair/fur.

c)

Bird because it has feathers.

d)

Mammal because it is warm-blooded.

37.

Monkey

a)

Vertebrate

b)

Invertebrate

38.

Grasshopper

a)

Vertebrate

b)

Invertebrate

39.
Choose the correct classification.
Jellyfish
a)
vertebrate
b)
invertebrate
40.

Crocodile

a)

Vertebrate

b)

Invertebrate

41.

Which of the following characteristics is used when determining whether to place an animal in the vertebrate group or the invertebrate group?

a)

Ability to walk on two legs

b)

Presence of a spinal cord

c)

Method of respiration (lungs or gills)

d)

Flow of blood through the body

42.
What's a life cycle?
a)
It is like a inquiry cycle
b)
It is a circle where we identify animals.
c)
It is a group of steps that show us how living things born, grow up, reproduce and die.
43.

Which of the following animals eat only meat?

a)

carnivores

b)

herbivores

c)

omnivores

d)

endotherms

44.

Which of the following animals eat both plants and meat?

a)

carnivores

b)

herbivores

c)

omnivores

d)

endotherms

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