Classify animals according to their features

Classify animals according to their features. Directions on the line below each chart list the 2 animals which scientist would categorize into the same group. Tell which group. Use the words below to help.

mammals	reptiles	amphibians	birds
fish	insects	spiders	arthropods

Animal	Temperature	Covering	Breath	Young Eat	Environment
1	warm blooded	skin with fine hair	lungs	milk	land
2	cold blooded	scales	gills	plants or meat	in water
3	cold blooded	scales	lungs	meat	land or water
4	warm blooded	smooth skin	lungs	milk	in water

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Animal	Covering	Number of Legs	Temperature	Lay Eggs	Transportation
1	feathers	2	warm blooded	yes	fly
2	shell	6	cold blooded	yes	fly
3	wet skin	4	cold blooded	yes	hops
4	shell	8	cold blooded	yes	walks

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Animal	Backbone	Covering	Chambers of heart	Number of Legs	Food
1	yes	wool	4	4	herbivore
2	yes	scales	2	none	omnivore
3	yes	fur	4	4	carnivore
4	yes	feathers	3	2	omnivore

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Animal	Teeth	Temperature	Covering	Number of Legs	Movement	Antlers
1	chewing	warm blooded	fur	4	walk	yes
2	tearing	cold blooded	scales	0	slithers	no
3	none	cold blooded	shell	4	walks slowly	no
4	beak	warm blooded	feathers	2	flies	no

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Animal	Covering	Diet	Locomotion	Breath	Habitat
1	scales	carnivore	walk on 4 legs	with lungs	all continents except Europe & Antarctica
2	scales	some carnivore - others herbivore	swim	with gills	salt and fresh water
3	skin	carnivore	hop	gills later replaced with lungs	fresh water
4	scales	carnivore	slithers	with lungs	all continents except Antarctica

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Animal	Tail	Temperature	Number of Legs	Locomotion	Young
1	no	warm blooded	2	upright	live young
2	yes	warm blooded	2	fly	egg
3	yes	warm blooded	4	on 4 legs	live young
4	yes	cold blooded	4	on 4 legs	most from egg- some live birth

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Animal	Covering	Unusual Feature	Legs	Temperature	Color
1	fuzzy	can fly even though has big body	2	cold blooded	black and yellow stripes
2	scales	very long snout	4	cold blooded	green
3	fur	long neck	4	warm blooded	yellow with brownish orange spots
4	shell	moves slowly	4	cold blooded	brown or green

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Animal	Covering	Locomotion	Legs	Diet	Habitat
1	some fuzzy-others smooth	crawls	8	insects - suck up the liquid parts of their prey	all over the world
2	scales	slithers	0	carnivore - eats small rodents	found in many habitats including in the water, forests, deserts and prairies
3	fur	on 2 or 4 legs	4	omnivore - loves honey	from the tropics to the Artic and from forests to snowfields
4	fur	walks on 4 legs	4	omnivore - loves fish	often pet

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