Classifying Plants and Animals Flashcards

To arrange or sort objects or living things according to their properties or characteristics.

By asking questions about the organism's appearance, habitat, and food sources.

By observing how plants transport nutrients and how they reproduce.

<p>Plants with tubelike structures that connect their leaves, stems, and roots.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Trees, ferns, and wildflowers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Plants that produce seeds in cones instead of flowers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ferns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Plants that pass water and nutrients from cell to cell.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Moss, hornwort, liverwort.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because they are nonvascular plants and do not possess tubelike structures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By separating animals with backbones from those without backbones.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Animals that have backbones.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Animals without backbones.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Arthropods, including insects, spiders, crabs, and shrimp.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A step-by-step approach to identifying an organism using paired descriptions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A warm-blooded vertebrate that feeds its young milk.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A cold-blooded vertebrate that lives part of its life on land and part in water.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A cold-blooded vertebrate that lives in water and has fins.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A warm-blooded vertebrate that is covered in feathers, breathes through lungs, and lays hard-shelled eggs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A cold-blooded vertebrate that lays eggs and has lungs and scaly skin.</p> Signup and view all the answers