This document provides information about classifying and identifying key characteristics of different animal groups, including:
- Vertebrates have backbones while invertebrates do not
- Mammals produce milk through mammary glands
- Herbivores eat plants, omnivores eat plants and animals, and carnivores eat only animals
- Birds do not have scales, and reptiles breathe through lungs and have dry, scaly skin and sometimes shells
- Fish have gills, fins, and scales and move through water
- Amphibians have moist skin and young breathe through gills while adults have lungs
- Arthropods include insects with six legs and three body parts, arachnids with
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Evaluunit 2
1. All about animals
1. Classify these animals into vertebrate or invertebrate animals in the table
below.
2. Complete these sentences.
● are animals that don’t have a backbone.
● are animals with a backbone.
3. Which body feature of a mammal produces milk? Circle.
A. Mammary glands.
B. Lips.
C. Limbs.
Vertebrates Invertebrates
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4. Write True (T) or False (F).
● Herbivores only eat animals.
● Omnivores eat animals and plants.
● Carnivores only eat animals.
5. Circle the characteristic a birds does not have.
A.
B.
C.
6. Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
● All reptiles breathe through .
● Reptiles have dry, scaly .
● Some reptiles have a hard on their back, such as the turtle.
● Most reptiles have four short . But, some reptiles, like snakes,
do not.
limbs, lungs, shell, skin
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7. Label the picture with the most important features of a fish.
8. Match the characteristics of fish to the definitions.
Gills ●
Fins ●
Scales ●
● Fish use them to move
through the water.
● Fish breathe through them.
● They cover the fish’s body.
9. Write True (T) or False (F).
● Amphibians have a long and moist tongue.
● All amphibians are oviparous.
● Adult amphibians have lungs for breathing, but young amphibians
breathe through gills.
10. Which of these sentences is incorrect? Circle.
A. Sponges cannot move around because they are fixed to the sea floor.
B. All molluscs have a muscular body and two shells.
C. Worms live in the ground or in water.
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11. These pictures show the life cycle of a frog. Label the three life stages.
12. Using your own words, explain the metamorphosis of a frog.
13. Label the parts of a fly.
head, thorax, abdomen, antennae, wings, legs
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14. Match the arthropods to their characteristics.
Crustaceans ●
Insects ●
Arachnids ●
● Their body is divided into three
parts: head, thorax and
abdomen. They have six legs.
● Their body is divided into two
parts: cephalothorax and
abdomen. They have eight legs.
● Their body is divided into two
parts: cephalothorax and
abdomen. They have ten legs.
15. Choose an invertebrate that lives in the ocean (sponge, jellyfish,
echinoderm, worm or mollusc). Write a description of the animal.