Science Readiness: Classification

Invertebrates do not have a

• brain.

• heart.

• stomach.

• backbone.

Alice keeps seeing a small animal in her backyard. To help her identify the animal, she wrote down the characteristics she observed.

-The animal has a backbone.

-The animal has four legs and a long tail.

-The animal is covered with scales.

What is the classification for the animal?

• bird

• mammal

• reptile

• amphibian

Which animal does not belong to the same classification as the others?

• turtle

• snake

• lizard

• earthworm

Ramon found a small plant in his backyard. He observed the plant for several months. He made the following notes about it.

-The plant does not have leaves or a stem.

-The plant never produced seeds.

The plant grows on a moist rock.

What is the classification for this plant?

• a tree

• a fern

• moss

• rose

Plants that have tubes that carry water and nutrients to the rest of the plant are called

• vascular plants.

• nonvascular plants.

• seed plants.

• seedless plants.

Which statement about vascular plants is NOT true?

• The can grow to be quite large.

• They have tubes that carries food.

• They are much smaller than nonvascular plants.

• They absorb water through roots.

How do nutrients move through nonvascular plants?

• along stems

• from cell to cell

• through leaves

• from plant to plant

Plants that do not grow from seeds usually produce _____________ to grow new plants.

• seeds

• spores

• roots

• cones

The largest group in invertebrates is

• crustaceans

• arthropods

• insects

• fish

Reptiles are ___________.

• warm-blooded.

• cold-blooded

• covered with feathers.

• produce milk for their young.