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Classification review
Early Years
The Basics
Birds
Orderly
100

This phylum consists of jellies and sea anenomes

What is the phylum porifera

100

They have adapted to life on land but they remain dependent on water

What are amphibians?

100
The scaly covering f the reptiles is made of this; also makes our fingernails
What is keratin?
100

Special structures in birds bones that aid in breathing

Air sacks

100
Contains only one living species, Sphenodon punctatus, the tuatara
What is Rhynchocephalia?
200

These phylum consists of snails and squid and clams

What is Mollusca

200
The first animals to become totally at home on land and dominated the Earth for 160 million years
What are reptiles?
200
Have no limbs, so they rely on their scaly skin and highly developed skeletal and muscular systems for movement.
What is a snake?
200

Number of chambers in a bird's heart and reason

4 they use a lot of energy (endothermic)

200
Consists of about 265 species of turtles and tortoises
What is Chelonia?
300

This class includes animals with three body segments and six jointed legs

What is insecta

300
Two reasons why reptiles "moved" to the land.
What are increased competition for resources in the oceans and less competition for these resources on land?
300
They conserve water by excreting nitrogenous waste in this form
What is a dry or pasty form as crystals of uric acid?
300

These feathers are asymetrical

What are flight feathers

300

This order has scales and a 4 chambered heart

What is Crocodilia?

400

Includes reptiles and birds

Sauropsida

400
The new structure which allowed reptiles to reproduce on land.
What is the amnionte egg?
400
Animals whose body temperature is determined by the environment are known as these.
What are ectotherms?
400

Two differences between birds and dinosaurs and two similarities 

teeth and claws, feathers and 4 chambered heart

400
This order consists of more than 6000 species if lizards and snakes.
What is Squamata?
500
Eukaryotic, multicellular, heterotrophic organisms
What is Kingdom Animalia?
500
Other adaptations, other than the amnionte egg, that made the transition to life on land possible
What are waterproof skin, modified limbs and body systems, well developed lungs and a new methods of temperature regulation
500
Reptiles do this to regulate their body temperature.
What is alter their behavior?
500

Two major differences between birds and lizards

endothermic and 4 chambered heart

500
This order has the :third eye" or parietal eye.
What is Rhynchocephalia?