Vocabulary!
What does classification mean?
Classification means to put things in groups
Compare and Contrast birds and reptiles. Name 1 thing that is different. Name 1 thing that is the same.
Contrast: Birds have feathers and reptiles have scales. Birds feed their young and reptiles do not. Birds are warm blooded and Reptiles are cold blooded.
Compare: They both lay eggs and they both are vertebrates.
What are the 3 characteristics of mammals?
They have hair or fur. They are warm blooded. Their young are fed by the mother's milk.
I am an vertebrate. I live in the water. I lay eggs. I have scales. What am I?
A fish.
What does the prefix "in" mean?
Not or without
What is a dichotomous key?
It is a chart used to identify an unknown organism.
Compare and Contrast vertebrates and invertebrates. Name 2 things that are different. Name 2 things that are the same.
Contrast: Vertebrates have a back bone and Invertebrates do not. Vertebrates make up less than 10% of the animals on earth and invertebrates make up over 90%.
Compare: They are both animals, composed of cells, consumers, have the same life cycle
Name 3 characteristics of reptiles.
They have scales. They are cold blooded. The do not feed their young.
Why is Fungi not classified as a plant?
Fungi are not able to make their own sugar for food.
What is verb form of inference?
What is the noun form of move?
Infer
Movement
What is metamorphosis?
Compare dinosaurs with lizards and birds. Name 3 things that are the same.
Lizards and dinosaurs have 4 legs, scales and skeletons with backbones.
Birds and dinosaurs have feathers, a wishbone and similar hearts.
Name 3 Characteristics of amphibians.
They have soft skin. They are cold blooded. They do not feed their young.
What are the 6 Kingdoms of living things?
In order, what are the 7 classification systems?
Archaebacteria. Eubacteria. Protists. Fungi. Plants. Animals.
Kingdom. Phylum. Class. Order. Family. Genus. Species.
What is the plural form of phylum and fungus?
Phylum and Fungi
What does warm blooded mean? What does cold blooded mean?
Warm blooded means they keep their body temperature nearly the same all the time. Cold blooded means their body temperature will change as the temperature around them changes.
Compare and Contrast the life cycles of mammals and birds. Name 2 things that are different. Name 2 things that are the same.
Contrast: Birds lay eggs and Mammals have live births. Baby birds eat food and baby mammals drink mother's milk.
Compare: They both have babies that look like the parents. They both reproduce and die. They both have babies that are fed by the mother.
Name one characteristic from each of the 4 common plant phyla:
Mosses, Ferns, Conifers and Flowering Plants
Mosses: not vascular, no seeds, no flowers
Ferns: vascular, no seeds, no flowers
Conifers: vascular, has seeds, no flowers
Flowering Plants: vascular, has seeds, has flowers
What class of vertebrate did you find if you discovered an animal that hatched from an egg, spent the next stage of its life entirely in water and began to get oxygen through lungs?
Amphibian
Why do scientists classify?
Scientists classify to make it easier to communicate by having one name for each organism.
What is a defining or special characteristic?
A defining characteristic is one that makes this creature different from all others.
Compare and contrast plants and animals. Name 1 thing that is different and 1 thing that is the same.
Contrast: Plants make their own food and animals eat other organisms. Plants and animals have different life cycles
Compare: They both need sunlight, water and carbon dioxide or oxygen. They both reproduce and die.
Name one defining characteristic from each of these kingdoms:
Fungi, Protist, Eubacteria and Archaebacteria
Fungi: absorb food form the material they grow on
Protist: live in colonies, are food for many animals and assist in the digestive process
Eubacteria: many different shapes (rods, spheres, spirals), no true nucleus
Archaebacteria: survive in deadly environments, no true nucleus
Give one example of each of these invertebrates:
Mollusks. Worms. Cnidarians. Arthropods
Mollusks: snails, slugs, clams, squids
Worms: flatworms, roundworms, segmented worms (earthworms)
Cnidarians: Jellyfish
Arthropods: insects (butterflies), lobsters, spiders
Define arthropod, dinosaur, microorganism and metamorphosis
Arthropod: Jointed feet
Dinosaur: Terrible lizard
Microorganism: Small life form
Metamorphosis: Big change