This document provides an interactive quiz about classifying different types of animals. It asks 4 multiple choice questions about whether a lion is a mammal, if a spider is an arachnid, what type of animal a dolphin is, and which animal is an amphibian. For each question, it gives feedback if the answer is correct or incorrect, and provides clues to help select the right answer if it was incorrect initially.

1. Animals
By Ashley Cothron

2. Directions
• Please answer each of the following questions
about animals and how they are classified.
After you select an answer, you will be told if
your answer is correct or incorrect. If your
answer is incorrect, please return to the same
question and try again. If your answer is
correct, please continue on to the next
question. Good luck!

3. 1. Which one of these animals is a
mammal?

4. Incorrect
• Unfortunately, this animal is not a mammal.
Remember, a mammal’s body is more or less
covered with hair. A mammal gives birth to
live young and nourishes the young with milk.
Keeping this information in mind, go back to
the question and try again.
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5. Correct
• Congratulations! You are correct! A lion is a
mammal because it is covered in hair, it gives
birth to live young, and nourishes the young
with its own milk.
GO TO THE NEXT QUESTION

6. 2. Which one of these animals is an
arachnid?

7. Incorrect
• Unfortunately, this animal is not an arachnid.
Remember, an arachnid has a body that is
divided into two parts, the thorax and the
abdomen. Arachnids have eight legs and no
antennae. Using these clues, go back to the
question and try again.
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8. Correct
• Terrific! A spider is an arachnid! You probably
noticed that the body of a spider is divided
into two parts and that it has eight
legs, making it an arachnid. Good job!
Continue on to the next question.
GO TO THE NEXT QUESTION

9. 3. What type of animal is a dolphin?
A. A mammal
B. A fish
C. An arachnid
D. An amphibian

10. Correct
• Very impressive! Most people would think that a
dolphin is not a mammal because it lives in the
water. Even though a dolphin lives in the water, it
cannot breath underwater. Dolphins also give live
birth to their young instead of laying eggs like a
fish, arachnid, or amphibian would. Good job!
Continue on to the next question.
GO TO THE NEXT QUESTION

11. Incorrect
• Unfortunately, this is not the correct answer.
Think of the characteristics of a dolphin. Does it
give birth to live young or does it lay eggs? Is its
body divided into separate parts? Can a dolphin
breath underwater? Use your answers to all of
these questions in order to pick the correct
answer.
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12. 4. Which of these animals is an
amphibian?

13. Incorrect
• Unfortunately, this is not the correct answer.
An amphibian’s larvae is typically
aquatic, breathing by gills, and the adult
amphibians are typically semi-
terrestrial, breathing by lungs and through the
moist, glands in their skin. Use these clues to
go back to the question and decide which
animal is an amphibian.
GO BACK TO THE QUESTION

14. Correct
• Awesome! A salamander is an amphibian!
Salamanders lay eggs and have glands in their
skin for breathing purposes. Their larvae is
usually kept in water, making it semi-aquatic.
To learn more about amphibians and other
animals such as mammals, fish, and arachnids
click here.
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