Science quiz
Mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian or fish?
Five groups of animals with backbones. An animal appears and you click the group it belongs to. Names can mislead: watch the whales and the sharks.
- Format
- Sort into groups
- Items
- 30 to sort
- Limit
- 2:00
- Level
- Medium
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
A fresh 30 of the 73 each time. Today's first round is the same for everyone.
- Items
- 30
- Groups
- 5
- Time limit
- 2:00
- A miss
- Shows the answer, then moves on
- Each animal appears in turn. Click its group, or press its number.
- The groups never move, so the number keys are quick.
- Skip (0) sends a prompt to the back of the queue.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Click the group each animal belongs to. The groups appear when you start.
About this quiz
Mammals feed their young on milk, birds have feathers, reptiles have dry scaly skin, amphibians have moist skin and usually start life in water, and fish breathe through gills all their lives.
- The pool holds 73 animals: 39 mammals, 8 birds, 9 reptiles, 8 amphibians and 9 fish.
- The platypus and the echidna lay eggs but are mammals.
- Sharks have skeletons of cartilage, not bone, and count as fish here along with the bony fish.
Sources
- [1]Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). ITIS taxonomic database.
Note on the data. Each scientific name was looked up in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System on 3 October 2026 and is the valid name there; the class, order and family are the ranks ITIS files it under, and the common names are ones ITIS lists. Fish covers two ITIS classes: the cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) and the bony fish it files under Teleostei.
Last checked October 3, 2026
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