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Animal Classificatio
How Are Animals Classified
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Invertebrate | animals that have no backbone |
| Sponges | look more like PLANTS than animals |
| Sponges eat | tiny organisms that float in the water that passes in and out of their bodies |
| A hydra has | snakelike tentacles around its mouth |
| Mollusks | animals with soft bodies |
| Mollusks have | bodies supported by one or two shells |
| Sea star | uses powerful suction cups on its underside to pry open clams |
| Earthworm | segmented worm |
| Earthworms digest | decaying dead plant sediments in the soil |
| Vertebrates | animals with a backbone |
| Fish | lay their eggs in water and spend their whole lives in the water |
| A salamander is | an amphibian |
| Amphibians lay | their eggs in the water |
| Amphibians begin their lives | breathing through gills. |
| Amphibians develop | lungs and then live on land |
| How do reptiles breathe? | with lungs all their lives |
| How do birds breathe? | with lungs all their lives |
| Where do reptiles lay their eggs? | on land |
| Where do birds lay their eggs? | on land |
| Where do mammals live? | on land, in the water, and in the air |