Starter quiz

  • Scientists sort living things into groups based on similarities and ______ between their observable characteristics.
    • 'differences' ✓
  • What do we do when we classify things?
    • put them into enclosures in zoos
    • sort them into groups  ✓
    • provide them with a food source
    • move them from one habitat to another
  • What is an organism?
    • a living thing  ✓
    • a non-living thing
    • a body part within a living thing
    • a group of living things
  • Match the living things to the correct group.
    • penguins, ostriches, blue tits
      birds ✓
    • guinea pigs, whales, bats
      mammals ✓
    • bees, butterflies, ants
      insects ✓
    • snails, octopuses, slugs
      molluscs ✓
    • sharks, clownfish, salmon
      fish ✓
  • Animals that do not have a backbone or interior skeleton are called ______.
    • 'invertebrates' ✓
  • What do these living things all have in common?
    What do these living things all have in common?
    • they are all mammals
    • they are all vertebrates  ✓
    • they are all herbivores
    • they all lay eggs
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