Classifying Plants and Animals

On a visit to a beach, Hannah sees many sea animals. Which of the sea animals is a vertebrate?

• Clam

• Crab

• Sea snail

• Sea turtle

Which of the following features is used as

evidence to classify a jellyfish as an invertebrate?

• Tentacles

• Soft body parts

• Has a skeleton

• Does not have a backbone

There are many different types of

invertebrates. Which two invertebrates would belong in the same group?

• jellyfish and spider

• Beetle and walking stick

• Octopus and tick

• Ant and snail

Which of the following animals is an arthropod?

• Cracker horse

• Large mouth bass

• Zebra longwing butterfly

• Mockingbird

Frank has a pet toad like the one in the picture. He reads a book to learn more about it. He finds out that adult toads use lungs to breathe.

Which of these animals breathes in a way that is different from the way an adult toad breathes?

• Parrotfish

• Bear

• Crocodile

• Duck

Nadia is making a model of an insect.

What will she need to include in the model to make it correct?

• Wings

• 6 legs

• Backbone

• 8 legs

Jacob hikes in the woods. He finds a pine cone on the hiking trail. What can Jamal conclude about the type of plant that produced the cone?

• Fern plant

• Moss plant

• Flowering plant

• Nonflowering plant

Sandra reads a book about desert animals.

He thinks the most interesting animal is a mountain lion. Which other animal described in the book is the same type of vertebrate as a mountain lion?

• Spiny lizard

• Kangaroo rat

• Long-eared owl

• Monarch butterfly

Zach uses a hand lens to examine the petals of a plant. What can Zach conclude about the plant that produced the petals?

• Fern plant

• Moss plant

• Flowering plant

• Nonflowering plant

Sungwan makes a booklet about different animals. The picture shows the animals she describes in her booklet. Which two of these animals are the same type of vertebrate?

• Dog and seal

• Seal and trout

• Trout and penguin

• Alligator and newt