Scribd
Upload
9 views5 pages

Animal Classification Worksheet

The document is a worksheet designed for classifying animals into groups based on their characteristics. It includes tasks for sorting animal types with descriptions, creating a Venn diagram for comparisons, and identifying specific animals like flying foxes, penguins, axolotls, sharks, turtles, and platypuses. Students are required to record clues that help classify each animal into its respective group.

Uploaded by

misheetalahoti3
Copyright
© All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
9 views5 pages

Animal Classification Worksheet

The document is a worksheet designed for classifying animals into groups based on their characteristics. It includes tasks for sorting animal types with descriptions, creating a Venn diagram for comparisons, and identifying specific animals like flying foxes, penguins, axolotls, sharks, turtles, and platypuses. Students are required to record clues that help classify each animal into its respective group.

Uploaded by

misheetalahoti3
Copyright
© All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

Name: Worksheet

Animal groups

Task A: Animal groups

1. Sort the cards to match the animal type to its description.

animal description
mammal warm-blooded, lays eggs, has a beak

bird warm-blooded, live young, hair or fur

fish cold-blooded, lays eggs, has gills

reptile cold-blooded, lays eggs, moist skin

amphibian cold-blooded, lays eggs, dry, scaly skin

Note: You will need to cut out the animal names and the
descriptions to match them up correctly.

1
Animal groups Worksheet

2. Add the words to correct places on a Venn diagram to


compare these animal groups: mammals, birds and reptiles.

mammals

birds reptiles

cold-blooded dry, scaly skin


warm-blooded moist skin
hair or fur beak
feathers vertebrate
scales invertebrate
lays eggs

gives birth to live young

v2.1
Animal groups Worksheet

Task B: Classifying animals


1. Use the animal cards to identify the groups these animals
belong to.

Flying fox Penguin


Penguins
use their
wings to
swim
under the
Flying foxes are water.
commonly known as fruit
bats. They live in the They lay their eggs on the
tropics and subtropics shore. When the young
and eat mainly fruit. hatch, they use their
Female fruit bats often sharp beaks to crack the
only have one offspring shell of their eggs. Young
each year. Once born, the penguins appear fluffy
offspring clings onto its and develop their adult
mother's fur as she feeds feathers as they age.
it milk.

Axolotl

Axolotls are a type of


salamander. Axolotls have
smooth skin and lay their
jelly-like eggs in the
water. Although axolotls
spend their whole lives in
the water and use their
gills to breathe, other
salamanders spend part
of their lives on land.

3
Animal groups Worksheet

Shark Turtle

Sharks live in seas and Turtles live in the sea


oceans and breathe by where their hard shells
passing water over their and rough, scaly skin
gills. provides protection from
Although some sharks predators.
lay eggs, around 70% of Although turtles spend
sharks give birth to live much of their time in the
young. Young shark pups sea, they must come to
are born with teeth and the surface to breathe,
quickly swim away from and they lay their
the mother. leathery eggs on land.

Platypus

The platypus lives in


burrows on river banks
and has a covering of
waterproof fur.
When the female is
pregnant, she makes a
hole in the river bank to
lay her eggs. When her
young leave their eggs,
the mother feeds them
with her milk.

4
Animal groups Worksheet

2. Record the clues that helped you to classify each animal.

Animal Group Clues

flying
fox

penguin

axolotl

shark

turtle

platypus

© Oak National Academy 2023. Produced in partnership with Centre for Industry Education Collaboration.
5
Licensed on the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated. See Oak terms & conditions.

You might also like