Living Organisms: The Animal Kingdom
Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Working Animals
Vocabulary
Animals
100
What are the groups of living organisms?
Animals, plants and others
100
Has an internal skeleton and a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
100
What do we call the activity of breeding and looking after livestock?
Animal Husbandry.
100
Oviparous animals.
Develop inside an egg that their mother lays.
100
What type of animal is a tadpole?
Vertebrate and amphibian.
200
How do you classify animals according to what they eat?
Herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.
200
What are the five groups of vertebrates?
Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
200
What four things do we get from animals'
Food, materials, work and company.
200
Describe a Mammal.
- Vertebrate. - Viviparous. - Land or aquatic. - Usually covered in fur.
200
What type of animal is an octopus?
A mollusc
300
What are the three things that animals can´t live without?
Liquid water, food and oxygen.
300
What are the 5 groups of invertebrates?
Cnidaria, worms, echinoderms, molluscs and arthropods.
300
Name three materials we get from animals.
- Animal skins. - Animal fibres. - Animal bones. - Feathers. - Substances. - Animal waste.
300
Poultry
The name we give to birds that are bred for meat. Chickens, turkeys, ostrich.
300
What does a frog, a fish and a snake have in common?
They are all vertebrates.
400
What three things all living organisms have in common? (vital functions)
Interaction, nutrition and reproduction.
400
Describe an arthropod and give 2 examples.
- Body covered in armour plates. - Various number of legs. - Aquatic or land. - examples: Crab, shrimp, spider, wasp, centipede, flies.
400
How has our relationship with animals changed?
Long ago humans would HUNT and today we DOMESTICATE and BREED animals.
400
Describe an echinoderm.
- Invertebrate. - Shaped like a star or a ball.
400
What type of animal is an ostrich?
Unusual animal: a bird that can´t fly.
500
Name three animal characteristics.
- They feed on other living organisms. - They breathe oxygen. - They have got sense organs. - They feel sensations. - They move.
500
What are the three groups of Unusual animals?
Amphibious fish, birds that can't fly and mammals laying eggs.
500
What categories are fish in fish farming put in?
- Freshwater. - Saltwater. - Molluscs. -Arthropods.
500
What is reproduction?
When animals produce offspring or have babies.
500
What does a sheep, a cow and a rabbit have in common?
They are all livestock and mammals.