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Classification of Animals

The document classifies living things by grouping them into animals and plants. Within animals, it describes the characteristics of vertebrates like mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles as well as invertebrates such as mollusks, arthropods and cnidarians.

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Classification of Animals

The document classifies living things by grouping them into animals and plants. Within animals, it describes the characteristics of vertebrates like mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles as well as invertebrates such as mollusks, arthropods and cnidarians.

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Classification

Grouping & Identifying


Living Things

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Why classify?
 Think of three examples where we
group things.

 Why do we group these things?


Classifying Living Things
 We put livings things into two large
groups:

Animals

Plants
Animals
 Animals are spilt into two major
groups:

Vertebrates

Invertebrates
Vertebrates
 These are animals with a backbone.
 There are five groups of vertebrates:

Amphibians
Birds
Fish
Mammals
Reptiles
Amphibians
 Have moist skin
 Lay jelly coated
eggs in water
 Lives on land and
water
Birds
 Have feathers and
hollow bones
 Lay hard shelled
eggs
 Warm blooded
Fish
 Have wet scales
 Lays eggs in
water
 Lives in water
Mammals
 Have hair and
produce milk
 Give birth to live
offspring (no eggs)
 Warm blooded
Reptiles
 Have dry scales
 Lay leathery
shelled eggs
 Cold blooded
Summary of Vertebrates
Invertebrates
 These are animals without a backbone
 There are eight groups of invertebrates

 Mollusks
 Annelids
 Roundworms
 Sponges
 Flatworms
 Arthropods
 Cnidarians
 Echinoderms
Mollusks
 Crawl on a single
fleshy pad.
 Can have a shell
Annelids
 Have round worm
like bodies
 Have bodies
divided into
segments
Roundworms
 Have long thin
round worm like
bodies
 Have bodies with
no segments
Sponges

 Have bodies
made of loosely
joined cells
Flatworms

 Have flat worm


like bodies
Arthropods
 Have lots of legs and segmented
bodies.
 There are four group of arthropods:

 Arachnids
Centipedes & Millipedes
Crustaceans
Insects
Arthropods - Arachnid
 Have four pairs of
legs.
 Have bodies
divided into two
sections
Arthropods – Centipedes
& Millipedes
 Have long thin
bodies and pairs of
legs on each of
their many body
sections
Arthropods - Crustacean
 Have five-seven
pairs of legs
 First pair often
used as pincers
 Bodies covered
in shell
Arthropods - Insects
 Have three pairs of
legs
 Bodies divided into
three sections
 Often have wings
Cnidarians
 Have thin sack
like bodies
 Have tentacles
Echinoderms
 Have bodies divided
into five parts
 Have spiny outer
covering

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