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Monday, 17 June 2019

Animal Kingdom

Fish:

  • Live in water 
  • Breathe with gills
  • Moist skin covered in scales
  • Most lay eggs
  • Cartilage or bony skin
  • Cold-blooded

Amphibian:

  • Moist skin
  • Lay their eggs in water
  • Larvae breathe with gills
  • Adults breathe with lungs
  • Adults live on land
  • Cold-blooded
Reptile:

  • Dry, scaly scales
  • Lay eggs
  • Breathe with lungs
  • Cold-blooded
Bird:

  • Covered in feathers
  • Lay eggs with hard shells
  • Have wings
  • Warm-blooded
  • Breathe with lungs
Mammal:

  • Body covered in hair or fur
  • Feed young on milk
  • Warm-blooded
  • Breathe using lungs
True Worms:

  • Body is tubular and/or made up of segments
  • Tube-like digestive system
Flat worm:

  • Breathe through their skin
  • Unsegmented body
Sponges:

  • Take in water through pores (little holes) in their bodies from which the filter (take out) little bits of food
Cnidarians:

  • Hollow body with specialized cells (stringers) that they use for capturing prey
  • Live in water
Molluscs:

  • Most live in sea
  • Most have shells
  • Unsegmented body
Echinoderms:

  • A skeleton makeup of five plates
  • Tube feet
  • Live in the sea
Arthropods:

  • Jointed legs
  • divided into four further sub-groups
Crustaceans:
  • Most are aquatic
  • Body divided into three parts
  • Most breathe with gills
  • Hard outer shell
Myriapods:

  • Many pairs of legs
  • Single pair or antennae
  • Simple eyes
Insects:

  • Body divided into three parts
  • Three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings
  • One pair or antennae on head
  • Compound eyes
Arachnids:

  • Body divided into two parts
  • Four pairs of legs and no wings
  • No antennae


1 comment:

  1. Hi Lauren, I liked the way you describe the animal kingdom, simple and direct to the point. The pictures are so cute and interesting too. Keep up the good work !

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