Question 1

Sort these characteristics of animals

Question 2

What is NOT a reason animals move?

Accepted Answer

to have offspring

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to escape from danger

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to find a new home

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to find food

Question 3

What is the first step on the food chain?

Accepted Answer

producers use energy from the sun to make food

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secondary consumers get energy by eating other consumers

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decomposers break down remains

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primary  consumers eat plants

Question 4

the consumer that gets energy from eating other consumers

Accepted Answer

secondary consumer

Answer

primary consumer

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producer

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decomposer

Question 5

Match the animal to their type of symmetry.

Question 6

animal with no backbone

Accepted Answer

invertebrate

Answer

a puddle

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vertebrate

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an exoskeleton

Question 7

a human

Accepted Answer

a vertebrate

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a plant

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an invertebrate

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a non-living thing

Question 8

the simplest invertebrate

Accepted Answer

sponges

Answer

phylums

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crabs

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flatworms

Question 9

simplest worm

Accepted Answer

flatworm

Answer

roundworm

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sandworm

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earthworm

Question 10

earthworms, sandworms, and leeches

Accepted Answer

segmented worms

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symmetrical worms

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flatworms

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landworms

Question 11

Match the phylum to the correct invertebrate.

Question 12

What are the three parts of an insect?

Accepted Answer

head thorax abdomen

Question 13

the backbone is part of ....

Accepted Answer

an endoskeleton

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an exoskeleton

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an invertebrate

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a sponge

Question 14

What are the two jobs of the skeleton?

Accepted Answer

to support the body and protect the organs

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to protect the organs and move blood around the body

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none of the above

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to support the body and allow movement

Question 15

Match the descriptions.

Question 16

The three classes of fish

Accepted Answer

bony, cartilaginous, and jawless

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sharks, fish, and whales

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freshwater, saltwater, and domesticated

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bony, jawless, and sharks

Question 17

What is NOT a characteristic of a fish?

Accepted Answer

have an exoskeleton

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have gills

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have streamlined bodies

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are cold-blooded

Question 18

What is the major characteristic of a cartilaginous fish?

Accepted Answer

it has a skeleton made of cartilage

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it has no teeth

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it does not have gills

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it has tough. bony scales to protect it

Question 19

a cold-blooded vertebrate who spends part of its life in the water and part of its life on land

Accepted Answer

amphibian

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reptile

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fish

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mammal

Question 20

What is NOT a characteristic of a reptile?

Accepted Answer

lives in the water as a tadpole

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have tough eggs

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breathes with lungs

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have skin that keeps water in their body

Question 21

Which one of the characteristics below is a characteristic of a bird?

Accepted Answer

they have a beak but no teeth

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they breathe through their skin

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they breathe through gills when they are young

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they are cold-blooded

Question 22

Select a flightless bird (there is more than one right answer!)

Accepted Answer

Ostrich

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flamingo

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duck

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hawk

Question 23

Sort these characteristcs.

Question 24

How are mammals split into basic groups?

Accepted Answer

by how they have offspring (in eggs, in pouches, developed inside)

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by what they eat (herbivores, omnivores, carnivores)

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by their amount of intelligence (ranked on a scale from 1 to 10)

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by their fur/hair color (coarse, fine, thick)

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