Animal Classification Riddles

I am a large group in the classification system that scientists use to classify living things. Two of my types are called Plant and Animal. What am I called?

• Family

• Carnivore

• Kingdom

• Reptile

I am an animal that eats mainly meat. What am I?

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Mammal

• Omnivore

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

I am an animal that eats only plants. What am I?

• Omnivore

• Bird

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

I am an animal that eats both meat and plants. What am I?

• carnivore

• herbivore

• meativore

• omnivore

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

I am the trip that birds and some other animals take when they move from one climate to another. What am I called?

• dormant

• bask

• migration

• vertebrate

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

I am a cold-blooded animal that has rough, scaly skin. What am I?

• reptile

• amphibian

• mammal

• fish

I am a vertebrate animal whose body is covered in feathers, has wings for flying, and lays eggs in a nest I make for my young. What am I?

• mammal

• amphibian

• reptile

• bird

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

I am an animal group that has hair or fur. The females in this group give birth to live babies and make milk in their bodies to feed their young. What animal group am I?

• birds

• mammals

• fish

• amphibians

I am an animal group that is cold-blooded, lives in water and on land, and lay eggs- most of us have moist skin. My name means "living two lives."

• amphibian

• fish

• reptile

• bird

I am a cold-blooded vertebrate who swims in fresh water or salt water. I move around by using my fins, and I breathe oxygen through my gills underwater. What am I?

• amphibian

• reptile

• fish

• mammal

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A