Vertebrates
What is a Vertebrate?
An animal with a spine and skeleton.
What is an Invertebrate?
An animal that does not have a spine or skeleton.
A frog is a...
Vertebrate
A penguin falls into the category of...
Birds
What is a butterfly?
An invertebrate / insect
How many groups of vertebrates are there?
There are 5 groups of vertebrates.
There are 6 groups of invertebrates.
A whale is a...
Vertebrate
Lions are a kind of
Mammal
An octopus is an example of a
Cephalopod
An animal with an exoskeleton is...
Not a vertebrate.
True or false: Invertebrates always have soft bodies
False
Name 5 vertebrate animals
(dogs, elephants, frogs, lions, lizards...etc)
A snail is a kind of...
Mollusk
True or false: A sponge is an animal
True!
What does a skeleton do?
It supports an animals body
An animal with a shell is..
an invertebrate
Name three invertebrate animals
(Ants, snails, sponges, worms, jellyfish...etc)
A kind of Cnidarian
Jellyfish
True or False: Crabs have skeletons
False! Crabs have an EXOSKELETON
Name the 5 groups of vertebrates.
Mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and amphibians.
Name the 6 groups of invertebrates.
Arthropods, Mollusks, Annelids, Echinoderms, sponges, and Cnidarians
A crustacean is an..
Invertebrate
A sea urchin is a kind of...
Echinoderm
What is an exoskeleton?
It is a skeleton on the OUTSIDE of an animals body.