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Classifying animals – practice for Years 6–7

Sample questions on Classifying animals with the right answer and a worked solution, from easy to hard. In the Pickles Academy app a child gets new questions of the same kind every time, so they can't just learn the answers by heart.

Subject
Biology
Year
Years 6–7
Curriculum area
Animal biology

Question types: Classify the animal

Rule: Classifying animals

Vertebrates have a backbone: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Arthropods have jointed legs: insects (6 legs), arachnids (8 legs), crustaceans (two pairs of antennae).

Molluscs have a soft body, often with a shell: snail, mussel, octopus.

Example: A tick has 8 legs: it is an arachnid, not an insect.

Watch out: A woodlouse is not an insect but a crustacean that lives on land. An octopus is a mollusc, not a fish.

Sample questions

  1. Question 1 Easy

    Which animal is a fish?

    1. A) garden spider
    2. B) bat
    3. C) tick
    4. D) peacock butterfly
    5. E) wels catfish
    Show the solution
    Answer: E) wels catfish

    How it works: garden spider – arachnids; bat – mammals; tick – arachnids; peacock butterfly – insects; wels catfish – fish

  2. Question 2 Normal

    Which animal is a bird?

    1. A) crab
    2. B) penguin
    3. C) tick
    4. D) smooth newt
    5. E) carp
    Show the solution
    Answer: B) penguin

    How it works: crab – crustaceans; penguin – birds; tick – arachnids; smooth newt – amphibians; carp – fish

  3. Question 3 Hard

    Which animal is an insect?

    1. A) hummingbird
    2. B) barn owl
    3. C) bat
    4. D) honeybee
    5. E) woodlouse
    Show the solution
    Answer: D) honeybee

    How it works: hummingbird – birds; barn owl – birds; bat – mammals; honeybee – insects; woodlouse – crustaceans

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