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Diversity of Animals

The document discusses the diversity of animals, categorizing them into vertebrates and invertebrates. It outlines the characteristics of vertebrates, including fish, reptiles, and amphibians, detailing their physical traits, habitats, and reproduction methods. Additionally, it introduces the concept of metamorphosis in amphibians and poses questions related to the content.

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Diversity of Animals

The document discusses the diversity of animals, categorizing them into vertebrates and invertebrates. It outlines the characteristics of vertebrates, including fish, reptiles, and amphibians, detailing their physical traits, habitats, and reproduction methods. Additionally, it introduces the concept of metamorphosis in amphibians and poses questions related to the content.

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DIVERSITY OF

ANIMALS
MR DAWSON
QUESTION

• What are the three main differences


between plants and animals?
VERTEBRATES AND INVERTEBRATES

The animal kingdom is divided into two main


groups.

The two main groups are vertebrates and


invertebrates.

Vertebrates are animals with backbones.

Invertebrates are animals without


backbones
VERTEBRATES
AND
INVERTEBRATE
S
• There are five classes of vertebrates: fish, reptiles,
amphibians, birds and mammals.
• When biologists were classifying animals into one of
these five groups, they took into account the following
things-
• The kind of body
covering: skin, scales,
VERTEBRA feathers, fur, hair
• What kind of skeleton it
TES has
• What kind of limbs it has:
legs, arms, wings, tails
• How it moves
• Its habitat
• Whether it is warm or
cold blooded
• How it reproduces
FISH

Fish have moist skin covered in scales.

They have a skeleton that is made of hard bone (like trout fish) or of cartilage which is more
flexible. Flexible means it can bend. Sharks have a skeleton made of cartilage.

Fish have fins which are used for swimming.

They have gills which are used to take oxygen out of the water for breathing.

They are cold blooded which means their body temperature changes with the temperature of
the environment.

To reproduce they lay eggs that have no shells


REPTILES

• Reptiles have dry, waterproof skin.


• Some reptiles, like snakes, have scales.
• Some reptiles, like tortoises, have shells.
• The skeleton is made of bone.
• They live mainly on land (but many of them can also swim) and
have lungs to breathe.

• They have two front legs and two back legs.


• Snakes have no legs.
• They are cold blooded.
• To reproduce they lay eggs with a leathery shell
A frog is an amphibian.

Amphibians have moist, naked skin.

The young live in water and have tails for swimming.

AMPHIBIA They eventually develop front and back legs which allow
NS them to move onto land where they jump and hop.
The young have gills to breathe in water.

The adults breathe with lungs and through their skin.

They are cold blooded and lay eggs with no shells


QUESTIONS

WHAT IS AN TO WHICH ANIMAL


INVERTEBRATE? CLASS DO SNAKES
BELONG?
VIDEO

• [Link]
AMPHIBIANS

• Most amphibians start their life in water and then as they


become adults start living on land, too.
• We call this process of change, metamorphosis.
QUESTIONS

• What do we call the process of changing from egg to frog? b.


How do tadpoles breathe?

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