Response to Text (The Animal Kingdom)

 The Animal Kingdom

Instructions: 

Highlight the correct answer for each question.

Questions:

1. How many species of animals are there in the Animal Kingdom?

a) One Thousand                                                     b) One Hundred 

 c) Over a Million                                                     d) Over a Billion

2. How many different Kingdoms are there in the Natural World?

a) three             b) five

c) ten   d) six

3.True or False? The word ‘classification’ means grouping things together that are alike. 

1. False          b) True

     

4. True or False? The Animal Kingdom is the third largest Kingdom in the Natural World. 

1. True                 b) False

5. ‘Invertebrates’ are animals that don’t have 

1. a tail                 b) an exoskeleton

      c)  any eyes                         d) a backbone

6.. An example of an ‘invertebrate’ are

1. worms                                       b) slugs

      c) spiders                                       d) All of the above

7. What does the word ‘exoskeleton’ mean? 

1. A human skeleton                    b) a hard outer casing or shell

      c)   Halloween                                  d) a type of animal

8. ‘Vertebrates’ are animals that

1. Have a Backbone     b) live in outer space

      c)   Have an exoskeleton              d) are actually plants

9. An example of a ‘vertebrate’ is 

a) a slug                                      b) a spider

c) an insect                                           d) a human

10) What was the article about? Which fact interested you the most? Why? 

→this one The animal kingdom is an enormous group of organisms that includes over a million different species of animals. What do you have in common with an octopus, a bumblebee, a parrot and a horse? At first, you may think absolutely nothing! However, the truth is that you all belong to the same kingdom of living things: the animal kingdom.