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Diversity of Animals

The document discusses the diversity of animals, classifying them as either vertebrates or invertebrates. It outlines five classes of vertebrates - fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals - and describes some of their key characteristics, such as whether they are warm or cold-blooded, how they breathe and reproduce. It also summarizes two phyla of invertebrates - Arthropoda and Mollusca - noting that arthropods have jointed legs and segmented bodies, while molluscs have soft bodies.

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Diversity of Animals

The document discusses the diversity of animals, classifying them as either vertebrates or invertebrates. It outlines five classes of vertebrates - fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals - and describes some of their key characteristics, such as whether they are warm or cold-blooded, how they breathe and reproduce. It also summarizes two phyla of invertebrates - Arthropoda and Mollusca - noting that arthropods have jointed legs and segmented bodies, while molluscs have soft bodies.

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Diversity of animals.

The classification of animals in the kingdom Animalia (the animal kingdom).


Vertebrate and invertebrate animals.
a) Vertebrate – an animal with a backbone.
b) Invertebrate – an animal with no backbone. Over 90% of all animals on earth
are invertebrates.
c) Cold- blooded – an animal that cannot keep its body temperature constant.
d) Warm – blooded – an animal that can keep its body temperature constant.
e) Gaseous exchange – the movement of gases into and out of the body.
Five classes of vertebrates are:
i. Fish.
- They are aquatic vertebrates, which means that they live in water.
- Their limbs are modified into fins for swimming.
- They breathe with gills.
- They cannot control their body temperature.
ii. Amphibians.
- Examples are frogs, toads and salamanders.
- They have moist skin that does not have hair, scales or feather on it.
- They lay eggs in water, the hatch into larvae called tadpoles that breath
with gills.
- Adult develop lungs and can live outside water breathe they can breathe
air.
iii. Reptiles.
- Examples lizards, snakes, turtles and crocodiles.
- They cannot control their body temperature. They need heat from the
environment to keep their bodies warm.
- Their skin has scales but no hair or feathers
- To reproduce they lay eggs with tough, water proof shells on dry land even
if the animal lives in water.
- They have lungs for breathing.
iv. Birds.
- They have a constant temperature even when the environment is very cold
or very hot.
- Their bones are usually lightweight and usually hollow.
- They have lungs for breathing.
v. Mammals.
- Most mammals live on land but we have others which are aquatic for
example whales, dolphins and seals.
- They have constant body temperature even when the environment is very
cold or very hot.
- Most mammals have sweat glands in their skin.
- They have glans to make milk to feed their young ones their young ones.
- Mammals are born alive rather than hatching from eggs.
Do activity 4 – page 39 – resource book.
Classes of invertebrates.
i. Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods).
• Arthropods are invertebrate animals that have jointed legs.
• Their bodies are divided into sections called segments.
• There are three main classes of arthropods which are:
a) Insects.
b) Arachnids.
c) Crustaceans.
ii) Phylum Mollusca (Molluscs).
• These are invertebrates that have soft bodies consisting of a head, a visceral
mass and a mantle.
• The largest class of molluscs is the gastropods which includes slugs and
snails.
Do activity 5 – page 43 – resource book.

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