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Ms T'sClassification
Understand terms relating to classification of animals
Term | Definition |
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vertebrates | Animal with a spine, or backbone |
invertebrates | Animals without a spine, or backbone |
classify | to sort, or put into groups |
warm-blooded | animals whose body temperature stays the same |
cold-blooded | animals whose body temperature changes with their surrounding |
mammals | warm blooded vertebrate, feeds its young milk |
amphibians | cold blooded vertebrate with moist skin, who breathes with gills and lungs |
reptiles | cold blooded vertebrate with dry skin, who breathes with lungs |
vascular | Plants that have tubes |
nonvascular | plants that do NOT have tubes |
reproduce | to make more of the same |
spore | a tiny cell that can grow into a new plant |
xylem | tubes that carry nutrients and water from the roots to other parts of the |
phloem | tubes that carry nutrients from the leaves to the rest of the plants |
gymnosperm | a plant producing naked seeds (pine) |
angiosperm | A plant producing protected seeds ( fruit, flowers) |
birds | warm blooded vertebrates with feathers, and lay eggs |
fish | coldblooded vertebrates with scales, who breathe with gills |