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What are the two (2) main phylums of animals?

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Vertebrates and invertebrates

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What is a vertebrate?

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An animal that has a spine or a backbone

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What is an invertabrate?

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An animal that does not have a spine

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Name the five (5) classes of vertebrates

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Mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles

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Name the characteristics of a fish

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  • Breathe through gills
  • Live under water
  • Most are cold blooded
  • Most lay eggs
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Name the characteristics of amphibians

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  • Cold blooded
  • Moist skin
  • Live on land and water
  • Breathe with gills and lungs
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Name the characteristics of reptiles

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  • Cold blooded
  • Breathe with lungs
  • Have scales
  • Most lay eggs
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Name the characteristics of mammals

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  • Get milk from their mother when they are very young
  • Live births (not eggs)
  • warm blooded
  • Breathe air with lungs
  • Have hair or fur
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Name the characteristics of birds

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  • Warm blooded
  • Have feathers and wings
  • Lay eggs
  • Most can fly
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Name the six (6) classes of invertebrates

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Sponges, cnidarians, echinoderms, arthropods, mollusks, and worms

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Name the characteristics of sponges

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  • Most primitive of animal groups
  • Live in water
  • Do not move from place to place
  • Filter tiny organisms from the water for food
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Name the characteristics of cnidarians

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  • Very primitive

- Mouths are surrounded by stinging tentacles

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Name some examples of cnidarians

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Jellyfish, coral, and sea anemones

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Name the characteristics of echinoderms

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  • Live in sea water
  • Have external skeletons
  • “spiny skin”
  • Use sucker-like parts to catch prey
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Name some examples of echinoderms

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Starfish, sea urchins, and sea cucumber

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Name the characteristics of arthropods

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  • Largest and most diverse of all animal groups
  • Have segmented bodies
  • Have hard external skeletons
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Name some examples of arthropods

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Insects, spiders, lobsters, and crabs

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Name the characters of mollusks

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  • Soft bodied animals
  • Most live in hard shells
  • Second largest group of invertebrates with 50_000 living species
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Name some examples of mollusks

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Scallops, clams, snails, octopus

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Name the characteristics of worms

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  • long body with no legs
  • a distinct head and tail end
  • typically small
21
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Name some examples of worms

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Flatworm, earthworm, roundworm

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