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Plants and Animals Classification

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 51mins

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Class
Date
1.

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

2.

What questions can be used to sort fish, such as a bass, from amphibians, such as an adult frog?

a)

Does the organism use gills to breathe?

b)

Does the organism eat insects?

c)

Is the organism able to move around?

d)

Does the organism lay eggs?

3.

Which of the following questions could we ask to distinguish a mammal, such as a spider monkey, from a reptile, such as a crocodile?

a)

Does the animal have four limbs?

b)

Does the animal lay eggs to reproduce?

c)

Does the animal consume food for energy?

d)

Does the animal have a backbone?

4.

An organism with a backbone

a)

Amphibian

b)

Vertebrate

c)

Mammal

d)

Fish

5.

A cold-blooded vertebrate with fins and gills that lives in water.

a)

Amphibian

b)

Vertebrate

c)

Mammal

d)

Fish

6.

Any of various cold-blooded, usually smooth-skinned vertebrates, characteristically hatching as an aquatic larva with gills and then transforming into an adult having air-breathing lungs.

a)

Amphibian

b)

Vertebrate

c)

Mammal

d)

Fish

7.

Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young.

a)

Amphibian

b)

Vertebrate

c)

Mammal

d)

Fish

8.

Clara made a list of organisms and classified then into two groups. What would be the best titles for these groups?

Group 1: fish, amphibian, reptile

Group 2: mollusks, arthropods

a)

Vertebrates and invertebrates

b)

Seed producers and vertebrates

c)

Seed producers and invertebrates

d)

Vertebrates and non-seed producers

9.

Which of the following contains the largest group of organisms?

a)

Vertebrates

b)

Invertebrates

10.

Which of the following are classifications of plants?

a)

Vertebrate and invertebrate

b)

seed producer and non-seed producer

c)

mammal and reptile

d)

none of the above

11.

Based on the chart above, which of the following would be classified as a vertebrate?

a)

Grasshopper

b)

Iguana

c)

Jellyfish

d)

Spider

12.

Two ways to classify plants are

a)

how the leaves and stems grow

b)

how plants transport nutrients and how they reproduce

c)

how they live and how they died

13.

Plants with tubelike structures are called

a)

vascular plants

b)

nonvascular plants

c)

no spored plants

14.

The plants represented in the picture are:

a)

flowering plants

b)

coniferous

c)

vascular plants with spores

d)

deciduous

15.

The plant represented in the pictures is a:

a)

flowering plant

b)

conifer plant

c)

vascular plant with spores

d)

nonvascular plant with spores

16.

The plant represented in the picture is a:

a)

flowering plant

b)

conifer plant

c)

vascular plant with spores

d)

non vascular plant with spores

17.

The photographs show three plants.


These plants look different, but they all belong to the same group of plants. Which group do all three plants belong to?

a)

plants that produce seeds

b)

plants that produce flowers

c)

plants that produce spores

d)

plants that produce needles