# Classifying living things

> Grade 6: vertebrates and invertebrates, the five vertebrate groups, plants and fungi kingdoms, using a branching key, features used to classify.

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- Subject: Science
- Level: Grade 6
- Quiz: 16
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## Questions

1. What do we call animals that have a backbone? (Arthropods / Invertebrates / Molluscs / Vertebrates)
   Answer: Vertebrates
2. Which of these animals is an invertebrate? (Frog / Salmon / Snail / Sparrow)
   Answer: Snail
3. Most animals on Earth are invertebrates.
   Answer: True
4. Which vertebrate group has feathers and lays eggs? (Amphibians / Birds / Mammals / Reptiles)
   Answer: Birds
5. Which vertebrate group has dry scaly skin and lays eggs on land? (Amphibians / Fish / Mammals / Reptiles)
   Answer: Reptiles
6. Which vertebrate group starts life in water with gills and later breathes air with lungs? (Amphibians / Birds / Mammals / Reptiles)
   Answer: Amphibians
7. Name the vertebrate group whose young feed on milk from their mother.
   Answer: Mammals
8. Which kingdom do mushrooms belong to? (Animals / Fungi / Insects / Plants)
   Answer: Fungi
9. Plants make their own food using light, but fungi do not.
   Answer: True
10. Which group of plants reproduces using spores, not seeds? (Conifers / Ferns / Flowering plants / Grasses)
   Answer: Ferns
11. In a branching key, what does each branch point usually ask? (A measurement in metres / A yes or no question / The animal's age / The animal's name)
   Answer: A yes or no question
12. A key asks 'Does it have wings?' What is the answer for a dog?
   Answer: No
13. Which feature is best for sorting animals into vertebrates and invertebrates? (How large it is / What colour it is / Where it lives / Whether it has a backbone)
   Answer: Whether it has a backbone
14. A spider is an insect.
   Answer: False
15. How many legs does an insect have?
   Answer: Six
16. Which feature is used to tell a flowering plant from a fern? (It grows in soil / It has green leaves / It makes flowers and seeds / It needs water)
   Answer: It makes flowers and seeds