Animal Group

Description

Only A Few Examples

Mammals

·      warm-blooded

·      have hair covering their body

·      babies are born alive

·      they breath air

·      they are vertebrates

·      live in water and on land

·      bears

·      dogs

·      giraffes

·      dolphin

·      whale

·      pig

Reptiles

·      they breath air

·      scaly skin

·      vertebrates

·      babies born in eggs

·      cold-blooded

·      live in water and on land

·      turtles

·      alligators

·      snakes

Amphibians

·      vertebrates

·      in between a fish and reptile

·      live in water and on  land

·      cold-blooded

·      babies born in eggs

·      frogs

·       toads

·      salamanders

·      caecilians

Birds

·      warm-blooded

·      vertebrates

·      have feathers

·      have wings

·      they are bipedal

·      babies born

in eggs

·      most can fly  

·      live on land

·      penguins

·      ostriches

·      cardinals

·      sparrows

Fish

·      cold-blooded

·      vertebrates

·      covered with scales

·      have 2 sets of paired fins 

·      live in water

·      breath through gills

·      babies born in eggs

·      salmon

·      trout

·      bass

·      tarpon

Marsupials

·      have pouches

·      mammals- have fur

·      babies are born alive

·      live in water and on land

·      warm-blooded

·      vertebrates

·      koalas

·      kangaroos

·      opossums

Arthropods

·      live in water and on land

·      includes insects, arachnids, and crustaceans

·      more than 80% of living animals are arthropods

·      have segmented body parts

·       invertebrates

·      babies born in eggs

·      have an exoskeleton

·      beetles

·      flies

·      spiders and their relatives

·      shrimp

·      lobster

Sponges

·      live in water

·      do not move from place to place

·      filter tiny organisms out of the water for food

Echinoderms

·      live in seawater

·      have external skeletons

·      starfish

·      sea urchins

·      sea cucumbers

Worms

·      come in many varieties

·      live in all sorts of habitats- from the bottom of the ocean to the inside of other animals

·      flatworm (flukes)

·      roundworms (hookworms)

·      segmented worms (earthworms)

·      rotifers (philodina)

Mollusks

·      have soft bodies which usually live in hard shells

·      snails

·      slugs

·      octopuses

·      squid

·      mussels

·      oysters

·      scallops

·      cuttlefish

Coelenterates

·      mouths surrounded by stinging tentacles

·      mouths take in food and get rid of waste

·      jellyfish

·      corals

·      sea anemones

Cold-blooded

·      depend on their surroundings to establish their body temperature

·      snakes

·      fish

·      reptiles

Warm-blooded

·      regulate their own body temperature

·      bodies use energy to maintain a constant temperature

·      birds

·      humans

·      mammals

·      marsupials