eurekami

3rd grade animals and habitats

3rd grade (Year 4 in England) · 14 questions · Common Core: NGSS.3-LS1-1, NGSS.3-LS4-3, NGSS.4-LS1-1, NGSS.3-LS4-2 · England: KS2 Y5 Living things and their habitats, KS1 Y2 Animals, including humans, KS2 Y6 Evolution and inheritance

Name

Date

Score/ 14

1
Question 1
How are the life cycles of most mammals different from a frog's?
- A. Mammals start life as tadpoles.
- B. Mammals go through a pupa stage.
- C. Mammals never grow.
- D. Most mammal babies are born live and look like small adults.
2
Question 2
Adaptations: which statement is NOT true?
- A. A giraffe's neck grew longer because its parents stretched.
- B. An adaptation is a feature that helps a living thing survive in its habitat.
- C. Some animals use camouflage to hide from predators.
- D. Fish have gills to take oxygen from water.
3
Question 3
An Arctic fox's coat turns white in winter. How does this help?
- A. It stays cooler.
- B. It can swim faster.
- C. It is camouflaged against the snow.
- D. It scares other foxes.
4
Question 4
Why are wildlife bridges and tunnels built over and under busy roads?
- A. To give cars more space.
- B. So animals can watch traffic.
- C. So animals can cross safely between parts of their habitat.
- D. To keep animals in one place.
5
Question 5
True or false? Bright colours always mean an animal is easy prey.
- A. True
- B. False
6
Question 6
True or false? When a habitat changes, some living things move away.
- A. True
- B. False
7
Question 7
True or false? Dogs go through metamorphosis.
- A. True
- B. False
8
Question 8
What kind of life cycle does this animal have: butterfly?
- A. complete metamorphosis (egg, larva, pupa, adult)
- B. incomplete metamorphosis (egg, nymph, adult)
- C. no metamorphosis (young look like small adults)
9
Question 9
Peppered moths in a city with sooty, dark tree trunks were mostly dark. In the countryside they were mostly pale. Why?
- A. Dark moths are faster.
- B. Birds ate the moths that did not match the trees.
- C. Soot painted the moths.
- D. The moths chose their colour.
10
Question 10
Are the young of this animal born live or do they hatch from eggs: bat?
- A. born live
- B. hatch from eggs
11
Question 11
In the life cycle of a frog, what comes straight after "frogspawn (eggs)"?
- A. tadpole
- B. adult frog
- C. froglet
- D. tadpole with legs
12
Question 12
True or false? Birds lay eggs with hard shells.
- A. True
- B. False
13
Question 13
Adaptations: which statement is true?
- A. A giraffe's neck grew longer because its parents stretched.
- B. Some animals use camouflage to hide from predators.
- C. Every animal can live in every habitat.
- D. Animals choose to grow adaptations when they need them.
14
Question 14
What is a likely effect of this change: a new road is built through a meadow?
- A. polar bears have less time to hunt seals on the ice
- B. animal homes are split and crossing becomes dangerous
- C. flowers may bloom before the insects that feed on them hatch
- D. woodland birds lose nest sites and many move away

All done? Color in the animal! · Free from eurekami.com/math

for the adult only

Answer key: 3rd grade animals and habitats

1. D. Most mammal babies are born live and look like small adults.
2. A. A giraffe's neck grew longer because its parents stretched.
3. C. It is camouflaged against the snow.
4. C. So animals can cross safely between parts of their habitat.
5. B. False
6. A. True
7. B. False
8. A. complete metamorphosis (egg, larva, pupa, adult)
9. B. Birds ate the moths that did not match the trees.
10. A. born live
11. A. tadpole
12. A. True
13. B. Some animals use camouflage to hide from predators.
14. B. animal homes are split and crossing becomes dangerous