Vertebrates
This group of vertebrates has feathers and most can fly.
Birds
Animals that have a backbone are called _____.
Vertebrates
The place where an animal lives and finds food, water, and shelter is called its _____.
Habitat
When scientists sort animals by similar traits they are making a _____
Group or Category
All vertebrates have backbones.
True
This group breathes with gills when young, and some live both in water and on land as adults.
Amphibians
A covering of feathers helps birds do this (one main purpose).
Fly
Who was the famous scientist who studied the group of mammals called primates? (chimpanzees)
Jane Goodall
Which characteristic would you use to tell a mammal from a reptile? (one clear trait)
Mammals have hair/fur and produce milk; reptiles have scales and usually lay eggs
All birds can fly.
False
These vertebrates have scales and lay eggs; most live in water.
Fish
The outer covering that helps protect and keep an animal warm: _____.
Fur or Hair
Frogs have webbed feet to help them do this.
Swim or move through water
Give two observable traits you could use to classify a bird.
feathers, beak, wings
Mammals lay eggs.
False
Warm-blooded vertebrates that have hair or fur and feed their babies milk.
Mammals
The trait that lets fish breathe underwater: _____.
Gills
How does a hummingbird's beak help it to get food?
Long thin beak to sip nectar
You find a four-legged animal with scales and lays eggs. Which vertebrate group would you put it in?
Reptiles (if it has scales and lays eggs on land)
Fish can live only in freshwater.
False.
Most live in salt water.
Name all five groups of vertebrates.
Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Mammals, Fish
Explain one reason scientists classify animals into groups
To organize animals so we can study similarities, or to see how animals are related
Beavers create a special habitat called a _______.
— Look at this short description and tell which vertebrate group it fits and why: “This animal has dry scaly skin, lays eggs on land, and has claws.”
Reptiles — because of scaly dry skin and laying eggs on land; claws support reptile classification
Scientists classify animals to help us understand relationships and patterns in nature.
True