Classification

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Classification
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All living things can be put into one of five
groups called Kingdoms. The five Kingdoms are
Monerans
Protists
Fungi
Plants
Animals
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• Monerans
• Have no nucleus (prokaryotic)
• Are single celled organisms
• Examples bacteria, blue green algae

• Protists
• Are mostly single celled, but some are many
  celled organisms
• Have a nucleus and organelles (eukaryotic)
• Examples pond water organisms amoeba,
  paramecium, volvox

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• Fungi
• Are many celled organisms (eukaryotic)
• Do not make their own food
• Absorb food from their environment
• Do not move
• Examples mushrooms, mold, Athletes foot.

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• Plants
• Have chlorophyll
• Make their own food
• Are many celled organisms (eukaryotic)
• Have cell walls
• Examples ferns, trees, bushes, flowers

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Animals

• Are many celled organisms (eukaryotic)
• Do not make their own food
• Obtain food by eating
• Examples insects, fish, frogs, birds, worms,
  and people.

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All animals can be classified as belonging to one
of two groups
Those with Backbones
Those without Backbones
OR
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Animals without Backbones are called
Invertebrates.
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There are many different types of Invertebrates

• Sponges
• Cnidarians Anemones, Jellyfish, Corals,
  and Hydras
• Worms flatworms, roundworms,
  segmented worms
• Mollusks Snails, Clams and Octopuses
• Echinoderms Starfish and Urchins
• Arthropods Insects, Spiders, Ticks,
  Lobsters, Crabs, and Crayfish

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Sponges

• Are simple animals look like plants but are
  NOT.
• Dont move stay in one place
• Have no Backbone their body is filled with
  holes and have spiky fibers as a skeleton.
• Food passes through the holes which allows them
  to catch the food.

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Cnidarians Anemones and Jellyfish

• Have a soft body surrounded by arm-like parts
  called tentacles and stinging cells.
• All live in water
• Feed themselves with their tentacles - The
  tentacles catch the food.
• Have no Backbone

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Worms

• Can be flat, round, or segmented
• Flatworms have a flat body
• Roundworms have a round body
• Segmented worms are divided into small sections
• Have no Backbone
• Worms can be found in both land and water.
• Worms have a circulatory system ( many hearts)
  and a digestive system mouth and anus.

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Mollusks Snails, Clams and Octopuses

• Often have shells, a rough tongue, and a
  muscular foot.
• Have a head, foot and well developed organs
• Have no Backbone

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Echinoderms Starfish and Urchins

• Have a spiny body
• Are arranged in a circle, like spokes on a wheel
  they have tiny tube feet arranged around a
  central area.
• Live on the bottom of the Ocean
• Have no Backbone

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Arthropods Insects, Spiders, Lobsters, Crabs and
Crayfish

• Have a shell like covering called an exoskeleton
• Have jointed legs
• Have a segmented body
• Have no Backbone
• As it grows it MOLTS or sheds its exoskeleton.
• A lobster is an anthropod!
• Largetst group is the insect group!

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Animals with Backbones are called Vertebrates.
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There are divided into two groups Ectotherm and
Endotherms.
Ectotherms cold blooded
Fish
Reptiles
Amphibians
Endotherms warm blooded
Birds
Mammals
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There are five groups of Vertebrates
Fish
Reptiles
Amphibians
Birds
Mammals
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Fish

• Are cold-blooded (ectotherms) cant regulate
  their body temperature.
• Have gills (use to breathe) and scales (to
  protect)
• Live in water
• Have a Backbone
• Shark is a fish NOT a mammal.

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These are Fish
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Fish have Backbones
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Reptiles

• Have scales or scaly skin.
• Live on land in hot, dry deserts and in warm, wet
  tropical regions.
• Are cold-blooded ectotherms.
• Usually lay eggs on land.
• Have a Backbone
• Can include animals like crocodiles and
  alligators, lizards, turtles, and snakes.

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These are Reptiles
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Reptiles have Backbones
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Amphibians double life

• Begin life in water and as they become adults
  move on land (return to water to reproduce
• Are cold blooded ectotherms
• Young amphibians breath through gills, adults use
  lungs.
• Some have smooth, moist skin
• Lay eggs
• Have a Backbone
• Examples are frogs, toads, and salamanders.

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These are Amphibians
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Amphibians have Backbones
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Birds

• Have feathers and light-weight hollow bones that
  allow for flight
• Are warm-blooded endotherms. This means that
  they can regulate their bodies. Can live in any
  temperature.
• Lay eggs
• Have a Backbone - Birds are the only vertebrates
  that have wings and are covered in feathers.
• Have a heart (four chambered)

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These are Birds
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Birds have Backbones
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Mammals

• Have hair or fur
• Are warm-blooded endotherms.
• Feed milk to their young
• Bear live young
• Have a Backbone
• Four chambered heart

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These are Mammals
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Mammals have Backbones
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Review
Animals without Backbones are called
invertebrates
Animals with backbones are called vertebrates

1. Sponges
2. Anemones and Jellyfish
3. Worms
4. Snails, Clams and Octopuses
5. Starfish and Urchins
6. Insects, Spiders, Ticks, Lobsters, Crabs, and
   Crayfish

1. Fish
2. Reptiles
3. Amphibians
4. Birds
5. Mammals

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Sorting Activity

• On a separate piece of paper make a chart with
  two columns.
• Label one column Vertebrates and the other
  Invertebrates.
• Put the following items into the correct column
  in which it belongs

Amphibian, Arachnid, Bee, Bat, Bird, Cat, Clam,
Crow, Dog, Fish, Grasshopper, Grass Snake, Horse,
Human, Jellyfish, Lobster, Mammal, Rat, Reptile,
Snail, Shark, Spotted Turtle, Shrimp, Squid,
Spider, Worm
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Extra Credit Research Report
Write a report on your favorite Vertebrate or
Invertebrate. Include the following information

1. What do I look like?
2. What do I eat?
3. Am I a Vertebrate or Invertebrate?
4. Where do I live?
5. How long do I live?
6. What are the dangers in my life?
7. How do I reproduce?
8. Include a picture (photo, drawing, copy)

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Works Cited
Clip Art
http//clipartuniverse.com/free-animation.shtml
black widow, vulture, girl and horse,
frog http//www.infohub.com/ARTICLES/platypus.html
platypus
Photos
http//www.herper.com/Waterspider.html water
spider http//www.liveaquaria.com/
starfish http//www.discoveryschools.com.au/guides
/invertab/overview.html jellyfish
bmp http//www.cockroaches.sf.cz/
roach http//www.antcontrols.com/carpenter1.jpg
carpenter ant http//www.kwic.com/pagodavista/sch
oolhouse/species/herps/turtle.htm turtle
skeleton http//encarta.msn.com/find/MediaMax.asp?
pg3ti761552814idx461518272 fish skeleton,
http//www.zoology.ubc.ca/courses/bio204/lab7_pho
tos.htm frog, lizard, bird, rat, and porpoise
skeletons http//dgl.microsoft.com/?CAG1
clips http//members.aol.com/loxocemus/snakepics/n
onamer.jpg garter snake http//www.versaquatics.co
m/angelfish.htm fish photo, crab, nudibranch,
sea turtle, http//www.montereybaywhalewatch.com/p
hharbp.htm porpoise photo http//museum.gov.ns.ca
/mnh/nature/turtles/paint.htm painted
turtle http//artsci.wustl.edu/reglor/salgall/myo
n2.jpg salamander http//radical-reptiles.herpetol
ogy.com/lizardgallery/collared4.jpg collard
lizard http//www.cmycat.com/greatoutdoors.htm
cat photo http//www.cat.cc.md.us/courses/bio141/l
ecguide/unit1/shape/dkngon.html coccus
bacteria http//www.smithton.tco.asn.au/wildlife/l
obster/lobster.html alligator skeleton
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Works Cited
Photos continued
http//jonahsaquarium.com/picpercaflaves02.htm
perch http//new-brunswick.net/new-brunswick/sha
rks/species/tiger.html tiger shark http//www.nsm
.iup.edu/pha/photos/frogs/frogpics.html Fowler
Toad, Bullfrog http//www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/e
eob/anatomy/eeob512/shark/sharkskeletonindex.html
shark skeleton http//www.hoothollow.com/hummingbi
rdpage2.html hummingbird, bluejay http//www.skul
lsunlimited.com/lion.htm Lion skeleton, platypus
skeleton http//dsc.discovery.com/convergence/beas
ts/build/jigsaw.html Build a Prehistoric Beast
Game http//www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/skeletons/
- boa skeleton http//www.exploratorium.edu/frogs
/ wax frog http//www.photo.net/summer94/new-orlea
ns-zoo-birds.html - pelican, http//encarta.msn.c
om/find/MediaMax.asp?pg3ti761552814idx4615185
80 - full cat skeleton, http//animaldiversity.um
mz.umich.edu/accounts/bufo/b._americanusnarrative
.html - American toad http//www.washington.edu/b
urkemuseum/mammalogy/rano.html - Norway
rat http//www.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/wild/birds/
rockdove.htm - Rock Dove http//animaldiversity.um
mz.umich.edu/accounts/ambystoma/a._maculatumnarra
tive.html - Spotted Salamander http//thesciencewo
rkshop.com/protista/algae_photos.htm - volvox,
euglena, http//www.ext.colostate.edu/psel/ps9802
a.html -daisy photo http//www.forestry.auburn.edu
/samuelson/dendrology/pinaceae_pg/eastern_hemlock.
htm -Hemlock http//www.personal.u-net.com/chilto
n/fungi.htm- fungi photos http//www.photos-2000.c
om/ - orchid, pinkthum, http//www.ct-botanical-s
ociety.org/ferns/cystopterisbulb.html fern
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Works Cited
Photos continued
http//saltaquarium.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.h
tm?sitehttp3A2F2Fwww.harboraquatics.com2Fspon
ge01.html - sponges http//www.underwatercolours.c
om/bvi/ss5.html -Anemone http//www.meer.org/M31.h
tm platyhelminthes http//users.htcomp.net/weis/wo
rms.html -earthworm http//www.smithton.tco.asn.au
/wildlife/lobster/lobster.html lobster http//www.
mermaid1.demon.co.uk/body_molluscs.htm snail,
limpet, cuttlefish http//www.mermaid1.demon.co.uk
/body_worms.htm - fanworm http//www.versaquatics.
com/octopus_photos.htm octopus http//www.mermaid1
.demon.co.uk/body_echinoderms.htm urchin,
starfish http//www.dudak.baka.com/is373.html
grasshopper on goldenrod
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