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animals/insects clas
animal and insect classification
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vertebrates | have back bone/spine |
| Invertebrate | no backbone/spine, have exoskeleton |
| exoskeleton | hard outer covering that protects and supports |
| fish | largest group of vertabrates |
| how many different species of fish are there? | 30,000 |
| Scales | protect fishes' bodies |
| gills | help fish breath underwater |
| fins | help fish swim |
| cold blooded | bodies change depending on their environmental temeperatures |
| Amphibians | begin life underwater, move to land as an adult |
| amphibian: egg or live birth? | hatch from an egg |
| Amphibian young: how do they breath | gills |
| how do amphibians adapt to living on land? | develop lungs and legs |
| examples of amphibians | frogs toads salamanders |
| Reptiles | dry, scaly skin |
| Are reptiles cold or warm blooded? | cold |
| examples of reptiles | crocodiles, snakes, lizards and other yucky creepy things |
| reptiles: egg or live birth? | hatch from an egg |
| Mammals | Hair and fur keep the body warm |
| Mammals: egg or live birth? | Live birth, except for platypus |
| example of mammals | whales, dogs, humans |
| Birds | vertebrates with wings and feathers |
| birds: egg or live birth? | egg |
| How many types of birds? | 9,000 |
| leeches | feed on the blood of other animals and found in fresh water |
| what were leeches used for in the 1500's? | used in medicine to remove the disease or bad blood from people |
| current use of leeches? | they are being studies for their ability to keep blood from clotting. |
| Sponges | looks like a plant and stays in one place, it can't move on its own |
| how does a sponge get food? | It has hole on its body where water flows through and traps food |
| corals, hydras and jellyfish | have soft tubelike bodies with a single opening and tentacles. Catch their food in order to eat |
| worms | tube like invertebrates found on land and in water. like damp dark places |
| worms are classified into groups by what? | their shape: flatworms, roundworms, segmented worms, earthworm,n |
| starfish and sea urchin | invertibrates that move around on tiny feet, body parts are in a central area usually on the middle. |
| mollusk | soft body protected by a hard shell, a rough toungue and muscular foot |
| octopus and squid | they are mollusks but their shell is small and on the inside |
| arthropods | invertebrates with jointed legs and hard exoskeleton for protections |
| arthropods: insects | largest group of arthropods |
| non seed plants | plants that do not reproduce with seeds like mosses and ferns |
| seed plants | reproduce using seeds |
| mosses | non seed plants that have no true roots, stems an d leaves |
| spores | they are how non seed plants reproduce, one celled structures that grow into new plants |
| liverworts | non seed plants, similar to moss |
| ferns | spore forming plants that have roots stems and leaves (called fronds) |
| horsetail | non seed plants, live in swamps, reproduce using spores |
| Conifers | the seeds of these types of plants grow in cones (think pinecone) |
| flowering plant | plants that reproduce from a seed, and often have a fruit around the seed to protect it |
| monocot | the seeds of this type are single |
| dicot | the seeds for this plant are in two parts |
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slhanlon
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