Quiz: Characteristics of Plants and Animals

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

• Ability to walk on two legs

• Presence of a spinal cord and backbone.

• Method of respiration (lungs or gills)

• Flow of blood through the body

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

An organism with a backbone

• Amphibian

• Vertebrate

• Mammal

• Fish

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.

• Amphibian

• Vertebrate

• Mammal

• Fish

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Organisms are typically classified into groups based on

• features and characteristics they have in common (the same)

• if they are dead or alive

• only if the produced seeds or not

• only if they have backbones or not

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which of the following best describes the term organism?

• only plants

• only animals

• plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and all living things

• non living things

What are the basic needs of animals?

• water, air, computers

• food, water, toys, money

• food, water, shelter, air

• shelter, food, clothes, shoes

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NGSS.K-ESS3-1

NGSS.K-LS1-1

Plants make their own...?

• water
• sun
• food
• vitamins

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

These cells have no nucleus

• Prokaryotic

• Eukaryotic

• nuclear

• atomic

These cells have a nucleus.

• Prokaryotic

• Eukaryotic

• Antibiotic

• neutronic

Which sends water from the roots to the rest of the plant?

• xylem
• phloem
• root rocket

• water vessel