1. How would you classify the food in your refrigerator at home?
2. Why do you think it is important to organize animals into groups?
3. There are seven parts to the classification of each animal. To help you remember the seven group names, create your own memory device.
4. We humans have backbones which makes us vertebrates. Provide ten examples of other vertebrates. How do you know that they are vertebrates?
5. Organisms without backbones take on a variety of unique shapes. In fact, there are many more invertebrates than there are vertebrates. Provide ten examples of invertebrates. How do you know that they are invertebrates?
6. Describe the Atlas Beetle\'s physical characteristics. How do you think it defends itself?
7. Did you make it all the way to one million dollars? Which classification question did you find to be difficult?
8. Why do some animals build their homes in trees and some dig holes in the ground to live in?
9. Describe the environment in which you live. What types of trees and plants do you see? What is the weather like? What kinds of animals live in your environment? How do you adapt to your environment?
10. List some ways in which we can protect endangered species.
11. Describe how the insect is more “successful” than a human.