Vocabulary Quiz on Plants and Animals

What are flowering plants?

• Plants that reproduce with flowers

• Plants that reproduce by spores, not flowers

What are nonflowering plants?

• Plants that reproduce with flowers

• Plants that reproduce by spores, not flowers

What is a bird?

• An animal with a backbone, feathers, wings, and lightweight bones, breathes air, and lays eggs with a hard shell

• An animal that has a backbone and fins; lives in water and breathes through gills

What is a fish?

• An animal with a backbone, feathers, wings, and lightweight bones, breathes air, and lays eggs with a hard shell

• An animal that has a backbone and fins; lives in water and breathes through gills

What is a mammal?

• An animal that has a backbone and fur or hair; breathes air with lungs; does not lay eggs; feeds milk to its young

• An animal that has a backbone and dry, leathery skin or scales; breathes air with lungs; lays eggs with leathery shells or sometimes gives birth to live young

What is a reptile?

• An animal that has a backbone and fur or hair; breathes air with lungs; does not lay eggs; feeds milk to its young

• An animal that has a backbone and dry, leathery skin or scales; breathes air with lungs; lays eggs with leathery shells or sometimes gives birth to live young

What is an amphibian?

• An animal that has a backbone and lives in water when it is young and land when it is an adult

• An animal that has a hard-outer skeleton and jointed legs

What is an arthropod?

• An animal that has a hard-outer skeleton and jointed legs

• A change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism

What is complete metamorphosis?

• A change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism

• Type of insect development characterized by the similar appearance of pre-adults and adults

What is incomplete metamorphosis?

• A change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism

• Type of insect development characterized by the similar appearance of pre-adults and adults