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Animal Classification Overview

This document discusses the classification of living things. It explains that living things are grouped into two large domains: animals and plants. Within animals, there are two main groups - vertebrates and invertebrates. Vertebrates are further broken down into five groups: amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles based on characteristics like having a backbone, type of skin or scales, and reproduction methods. Invertebrates lack backbones and include eight groups: molluscs, flatworms, annelids, roundworms, sponges, echinoderms, cnidarians, and arthropods. Arthropods are the largest group and include insects, arachnids

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Animal Classification Overview

This document discusses the classification of living things. It explains that living things are grouped into two large domains: animals and plants. Within animals, there are two main groups - vertebrates and invertebrates. Vertebrates are further broken down into five groups: amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles based on characteristics like having a backbone, type of skin or scales, and reproduction methods. Invertebrates lack backbones and include eight groups: molluscs, flatworms, annelids, roundworms, sponges, echinoderms, cnidarians, and arthropods. Arthropods are the largest group and include insects, arachnids

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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
• Have feathers and hollow bones BIRDS
• 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

• Molluscs
• Flatworms
• Annelids
• Roundworms
• Sponges
• Echinoderms
• Cnidarians
• Arthropods
MOLLUSCS
• Crawl on a single fleshy
pad.
• Can have a shell
FLATWORMS
• Have flat worm like bodies
• Have round worm like bodies ANNELIDS
• Have bodies divided into segments
• Have long thin round worm like ROUNDWORMS
bodies
• Have bodies with no segments
SPONGES
• Have bodies made of loosely
joined cells
ECHINODERMS
• Have bodies divided into five parts
• Have spiny outer covering
CNIDARIANS
• Have thin sack like bodies
• Have tentacles
ARTHROPODS
• Have lots of legs and segmented bodies.
• There are four group of arthropods:

• Arachnids
• Centipedes & Millipedes
• Crustaceans
• Insects
ARTHROPODS -
• Have four pairs of legs.
• Have bodies divided into two
ARACHNID
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

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