Thursday, 26 July 2018

Animal classification

Today we learned  about how animals are classified into group. Animals are either vertebrates  or invertebrates ( which meas they have a spine or the don't)

Invertebrates are animals like Jellyfish , crabs ,insects  and octopus.
Vertebrates are put into five groups. They are mammals, birds and reptiles ad amphibians, Mammals have fur or hair and give birth to live young, Birds have feathers and lay hard, Reptiles are cold blooded and lay soft eggs, Amphibians breath through their skin and need help to keep their skin moist . Fish breath through gills and have fins.


Mammals: tiger, cow, spider monkey, pig, bull

Birds: sparrow, trumpeter, puffin, kea, bee eater

Reptiles : crocodile, turtle, tuatara , gecko , komodo dragon

Amphibians: salamander, caecilian, frogs, toads, newts.

Fish: guppy, shark, catfish, trenchfish, snapper 

2 comments:

  1. Good job, Henry. You have some great examples of the different types of animals. Keep up the great work.

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  2. Hi Henry. Your work on animal classification was really good. Keep it up.

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