Science Grade 2 Vocab review - Animals

1/29/2019 12:00:00 AM
10 questions extracted from Mobymax (Science, Grade 2), to help you review some basic vocabulary about animals. To learn more about this topic, get a Mobymax learning account (by going to http://contuhoc.com/mobymax).

A vertebrate is ______.

  • an animal or plant with a backbone
  • an animal without a backbone
  • an animal or plant without a backbone
  • an animal with a backbone
What is the definition of an invertebrate?
  • an animal without a backbone
  • an animal that eats insects
  • an animal that is covered in fur
  • an animal that does not breathe air
What are mammals?
  • vertebrate animals that usually have hair or fur on their bodies and spend part of their lives in the water
  • invertebrate animals that usually have hair or fur on their bodies and drink milk from their mothers
  • vertebrate animals that usually have hair or fur on their bodies and drink milk from their mothers
  • invertebrate animals that have fur or hair on their bodies and that usually hatch from eggs
What are birds?
  • invertebrate animals that hatch from eggs and have feathers, beaks, and wings
  • invertebrate animals that hatch from eggs, can fly, and have feathers, beaks, and wings
  • vertebrate animals that hatch from eggs and have fur and wings
  • vertebrate animals that hatch from eggs and have feathers, beaks, and wings
What is the definition of fish?
  • vertebrate animals that spend part of their lives in the water and part on land
  • vertebrate animals that live in the water and have wings
  • vertebrate animals that live in the water and have fins
  • invertebrate animals that live in the water and have fins
What are amphibians?
  • vertebrate animals that hatch from eggs and live part of their lives in water and part on land
  • vertebrate animals that hatch from eggs
  • vertebrate animals that hatch from eggs and live their whole lives in water
  • invertebrate animals that hatch from eggs
What are reptiles?
  • vertebrate animals that usually have dry skin and scales on their bodies
  • vertebrate animals that do not have legs and usually have dry skin and scales on their bodies
  • vertebrate animals that usually have smooth, wet skin
  • vertebrate animals that usually have dry skin and fur on their bodies
What is an insect?
  • an invertebrate animal with a long, soft body and no legs
  • an invertebrate animal with six pairs of legs
  • an invertebrate animal with three pairs of legs and a body that is divided into three parts
  • a vertebrate animal with three pairs of legs
What is a thorax?
  • a type of insect that has wings, antennae, and a three-part body
  • the third part of an insect’s three-part body, attached to the bottom of the insect’s abdomen
  • the second part of an insect’s three-part body, below the head
  • the first part of an insect’s three-part body, another word for the head
What is an abdomen?
  • the first part of an insect’s three-part body, another word for the head
  • a type of invertebrate animal that lives in the ocean and catches fish using stinging tentacles
  • a type of insect that has a three-part body, wings, and antennae
  • the third part of an insect’s three-part body, below the head and the thorax