Living Things
Are there more vertebrates or invertebrates?
Invertebrates
Is Mr. Bowers a plant?
No, he is a fungi.
There are 3 basic categories of fish - name 2.
1. Jawless fish
2. Cartilaginous fish
3. Bony fish
What is the main, common characteristic of all invertebrates?
They have no backbone or spinal cord.
There are 5 categories of reptiles; list 2.
1. Turtles 2. Snakes
3. Lizards 4. Crocodiles
5. Alligators
Virtually all food chains begin with ___________,
and end with ___________.
sunlight
bacteria
List 3 kinds of Fungi.
Yeast
Mold
Mushrooms
There are 4 types of birds - list 3.
1. Flightless
2. Waterbirds
3. Birds of prey
4. Perching birds
I am the largest invertebrate. I am a mullosk, of the cephalopod class. I can reach lengths up to 20 meters (65 feet) which is longer than your classroom!
What am I?
Giant squid
List 2 characteristics of Reptiles.
1. Ectotherms
2. Thick, dry skin
3. Some have scales
4. Lungs
What are the two kinds of factors present in any ecosystem? (Define each)
Biotic - living
Abiotic - nonliving
How do fungi get energy and nutrients?
They absorb them from dead, dying, or living material.
List 4 characteristics of birds.
Have wings, beaks, feathers, strong chest muscles, hollow bones, don't store fat (most), endotherms.
We have radial symmetry, tube feet and spiny skin.
Which group of Invertebrates are we?
Echinoderms
List the 3 "basic groups" of mammals - having to do with how young are born.
1. Egg laying (duck-billed platypus)
2. Marsupials (pouches)
3. Placental (develop fully in the womb)
*Most mammals are placental.
List ALL 5 Kingdoms
Animals, Plants, Fungi, Monera (bacteria), Protists
List 5 ways we depend on plants.
1. Food 2. Oxygen
3. Recycle CO2 4. Products like wood, cotton
5. Water cycle 6. Hold soil together
7. Home for creatures 8. Die > replenish soil
List 4 characteristics of fish.
Ectotherms. Sleek body shape.
Have fins, gills, scales (most), slime (most)
Spiders, insects, crustaceans such as lobster and crabs, and millipedes are all _____________________
Arthropods
List 3 characteristics of Amphibians.
1. Ectotherm
2. Smooth, moist skin
3. Breathe through skin
4. Hatch as tadpoles and breathe with gills. Adults breathe with lungs.
List 5 of the 7 characteristics of all living organisms.
Made of cells. Need and use energy.
Have basic needs - water, food, gasses.
Grow, develop, and eventually die. Reproduce
Respond to the environment.
Need a place to live - a habitat.
Explain the basic process of photosynthesis.
Plants take in 1water and 2carbon dioxide and use 3sunlight and 4chlorophyll to produce 5sucrose, and release 6oxygen as a waste product.
What is the difference between an ENDOTHER and an ECTOTHERM?
Endotherms create their own heat.
Ectotherms get heat from their environment.
Give 2 examples of COELENTERATES
1. Jelly fish
2. Anemone
3. Coral
4. Hydra
List 4 characteristics of mammals.
1. Endotherms 2. Lungs
3. Mammary glands
4. Hair
5. Large brains