Animal Classification and Characteristics

Name the groups of vertebrates.

• Fish, amphibians, and reptiles.

• Fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds.

• Mollusks, arthropods, worms, and sea jellies.

• Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

• Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, mollusks, arthropods, worms, and sea jellies.

What are the characteristics of fish?

• - Vertebrates

  - Live in water

  - Breathe through gills

  - Lay eggs

  - Cold-blooded

• Live in water and lay eggs

• - Invertebrates

  - Live in water

  - Breathe through gills

  - Lay eggs

  - Cold-blooded

• - Vertebrates

  - Live on land

  - Breathe through lungs

  - Lay eggs

  - Cold-blooded

• Cold-blooded

What are the characteristics of an amphibian?

• -Smooth and moist skin

  -Hatch from eggs

  -Invertebrate

  -Warm-blooded

• -Smooth and moist skin

  -Hatch from eggs

  -Vertebrates

  -Cold-blooded

  -Live in the water when young

• Vertebrates

• Cold-blooded

• -Smooth and moist skin

  -Hatch from eggs

  -Vertebrates

  -Cold-blooded

  -Always live on land

What are the characteristics of a reptile?

• Vertebrates

• Vertebrates, cold-blooded, has fur, breathe air through lungs, live births

• Vertebrates, cold-blooded, dry and scaly skin, breathe air through lungs, lay eggs

• Breathe air through lungs

• Lay eggs

What are the characteristics of a bird?

• Vertebrate

• Breathe air through lungs

  Has feathers

• Warm-blooded

  Vertebrate

• Vertebrate

  Have feathers and bills

  Light bones

  Breathe air through lungs

  Warm-blooded

• Vertebrate

  Prickly

  Light bones

  Breathe air through lungs

  Warm-blooded

  Has horns

What are the characteristics of a mammal?

• Vertebrate

• Vertebrate, warm-blooded, has scales, breathes through their feet, feeds milk to young

• Invertebrate, warm-blooded, has fur, breathes air through lungs, feeds milk to young

• Vertebrate, warm-blooded, has fins, breathes air through gills, feeds milk to young

• Vertebrate, warm-blooded, has hair, breathes air through lungs, feeds milk to young

Which groups are invertebrates?

• Sea jellies, worms, mollusks, and arthropods

• Worms, sea jellies, and monsters

• Mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles

• Mrs. Harris, Ms. Kus, and Mrs. Norton

What are the characteristics of a sea jelly?

• -Invertebrate

  -Soft bodies

  -Long and stinging body parts

  -Stuns its prey

  -Lives in space

• -Invertebrate

  -Soft bodies

  -Long and stinging body parts

  -Stuns its prey

  -Lives in the ocean

• -Invertebrate

  -Has a backbone

  -Long and stinging body parts

  -Stuns its prey

  -Lives in the ocean

• -Invertebrate

  -Hard shell covering its body

  -Long and stinging body parts

  -Stuns its prey

  -Lives in the ocean

• -Vertebrate

  -Soft bodies

  -Long and stinging body parts

  -Swims around

  -Lives in space

What are the characteristics of a worm?

• -Invertebrate

  -Long and soft bodies

  -No legs

• A worm

• -Invertebrate

  -Long and soft bodies

  -Has legs to walk around

What are the characteristics of a mollusk?

• - Invertebrate - Soft bodies - Swims in the ocean

• Snail

• - Invertebrate - Soft bodies - Hard shells and eyes