Animal classification
What is a backbone?
A series of bones joined together with a flexible material called a cartilage.
What animal class groups can be found near water?
All, amphibians are born in water, some mammals are born in water, some birds hunt in the water, and some birds swim in water, fish live in water, some reptiles swim. All animals need water to survive.
What class group is born in water, but as adults leave the water to live on land?
Amphibians
Name the animal class groups that are warm blooded.
Birds and mammals
Which class groups mostly lay eggs?
Birds, amphibians, fish, and reptiles
Vertebrate or invertebrate? eagle
Vertebrate
Vertebrate or invertebrate? shark
Vertebrate
Vertebrate or invertebrate? snake
Vertebrate
Vertebrate or invertebrate? turtle
Vertebrate
Vertebrate or invertebrate? whale
Vertebrate
In what other way can animals be classified besides by their Phylum (backbone or no backbone)?
Warm-blooded and cold blooded
How a cold blooded animal maintains its body temperature?
according to the air around them.
Vertebrates are divided into smaller groups called class. Name the five classes that make up the animal kingdom of vertebrates.
amphibians, fish, reptiles, mammals, and birds
Name the animal class groups that are cold blooded.
amphibians, reptiles, and fish
What is a vertebrate?
an animal with a backbone
What is an invertebrate?
an animal without a backbone
If an animals have feathers, to what class group does it belong?
birds
What is the process of grouping things together by a set of rules called?
classification
Name the characteristics of birds.
covered in feathers to keep warm and fly
Name the characteristics of fish.
covered in scales and uses gills to take in water; spends entire life in the water.
What two animal classes have scales?
fish and reptiles
What part of the fish allows it to breathe in water?
gills
Name the characteristics of mammals
have hair and mammary glands that produce milk for their young. live births
Vertebrate or invertebrate? crab
invertebrate
Vertebrate or invertebrate? jellyfish
invertebrate
Vertebrate or invertebrate? lizard
invertebrate
Vertebrate or invertebrate? octopus
invertebrate
Vertebrate or invertebrate? starfish
invertebrate
Which has the largest number of animal species? vertebrates or invertebrates?
invertebrates
The animal kingdom is divided into what two major groups?
invertebrates and vertebrates
What class group feed their young milk from the female's body?
mammals
Name the characteristics of amphibians.
moist skin and no scales; begin life in the water, but most live adult life on land. metamorphis
How do fish breathe?
through gills
Vertebrate or invertebrate? newt
vertebrate
