Assessment task — Investigating living things: Student resource 2

Animal groups

freshwater turtles

• have leathery skin• four legs• webbed feet• hard shells• short tails• lay eggs• swim• eat insects, worms and plants• live in creeks, dams and rivers

kangaroos and wallabies

• covered with fur• two large hind legs and two small forelegs• long tails• tiny young which live in the mother’s pouch

and feed on milk• eat plants• live on the land

ducks

• bodies covered with feathers• two legs• webbed feet• a bill• lay eggs• eat plants and small animals like worms, small

fish, small amphibians and insects• live near water

echidnas

• bodies covered with fur and spines, which are a type of hardened hair

• have four legs• strong claws• lay eggs and feed their young milk• eat worms and insects• live in burrows on land

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