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All About Classes of Animal

Wednesday reading about classes of animals

Class ‘Aves’

New words

•  Maintain - keep
•  Possess - have 
•  Grasp - grab 
• Wading - walking through water 
• Rapidly - quickly, fast
• Talons - claws on toes

Main characteristics of Aves 

• Warm blooded vertebrates that have wings and feathers
• Different kinds of birds eat different foods -
• they eat seeds, nectar from flowers, insects,
• worms, and sometimes small animals. 
• Birds have beaks. 
• Birds are bipedal. 
• There are 4 types of birds - perching birds,
• flightless birds, birds of prey and water birds. 

Class ‘Amphibians’

New words

•  Respiration - breathing 
•  Aids - helps
•  Terrestrial - land 
• Offspring - babies, children 
• Larvae - the early stage of life (look like a maggot kind of)
• Metamorphosis - the process of growing 
• Hind legs - back legs
• Aquatic - live in water 

Main characteristics of amphibians  

•  Live both on land and water.
• Lay eggs in water. 
• Cold-blooded 
• Breathe through their skin - their skin must stay moist.
• Have webbed feet.

Class ‘Fish’

New words

•  Torpedo-shaped - shaped like a rocket
•  External - outside

Main characteristics of fish

•    Cold-blooded
• Have fins and gills
• Fish don’t get pregnant, they put their eggs
• (babies) into the water.

Class ‘reptiles’

New words

•  Locomotion - movement
•  Broad - wide
•  Narrow - skinny 
• Fangs - teeth
• Venom - poisonous liquid 
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Main characteristics of reptiles

• Dry-scaly like skin 
• Limbs make them go fast
• Lay eggs 
• Have earholes, not ears
• Cold-blooded 

Class ‘mammals’

New words

• Sweat glands - part of your body that makes you sweat
• Partially - part 
• Derived - comes from 
• Insulator - keep warm 
• Approximately - about, roughly 

Main characteristics of mammals 

• Warm blooded
• Have live babies and mothers feed babies milk
• Large brains 
• Partially covered in hair - to keep them warm 
• Have sweat glands - to keep them cool 
• Have skin 
• Have external ears (pinnae)

Fun facts!

• Snakes don’t have noses
• Turtles mostly live in water, and tortoises mostly live on land 

Mnemonics

New words from reading

 Tuesday 23rd July 2019

Big idea: within each kingdom there are more different groups that classify animals. 

• Prokaryotes - a name of a kingdom 
• Etc means etcetera
• Interbreed - when two different animals have babies together

Mnemonics help us remember hard things, for example NEVER EAT SOGGY WEETBIX helps us remember North East South West. 

This is the mnemonic i learnt to help me remember the order:

keep ponds clean or fish get sick

Kingdom

Phylum

Class

Order 

Family

Genus

Species    

Animals Kingdom

New words from animal kingdom reading

Monday’s reading

• Organism - a living thing
• Vertebrate - has a spine
• Invertebrate - has no spine 
• Taxonomy - a way to group things
• Diverse - a big range 
• Amphibians - 
• Heterotrophic - means they must find and eat food
• Primates (apes, monkeys)
• Rodents (rats, squirrels)
• Cetaceans (dolphins, whales)
• Marsupials (kangaroos, koalas)
• Monotremes (egg laying mammals like the platypus)
• Autotrophic - make their own food by photosynthesis
• Photosynthesis - how plants make their own food
• Vascular - uses roots to absorb water
• Nonvascular - uses the whole plant to absorb water
• Decompose, decomposition - to break down
• Non-flowering - no flowers 
• Thermophiles - (root word is thermo which is about temperature) 

Big ideas from the reading 

• All living things are called organisms. 
• They are organised into 6 groups called kingdoms. Each group
• has certain characteristics that each organism must have. 
• Animals
• Can move on their own
• Are heterotrophic (can’t make their own food)
• Must eat to survive
• Vertebrates and invertebrates 
• Plants 

• They are Autotrophic (they make their own food)
• Some are vascular and nonvascular. 
• If a plant has seeds or fruit, it is a flowering plant.

• Eubacteria

• Are made up of just one cell. They are everywhere. Some
• bacteria are good and some are bad.
• Bacteria called decomposers break down dead plants and anacteria.

Archaebacteria

• Can survive where no other organism can live.
• Thermophiles, methanogens and halophiles

Fungi 

• Say it fun guy
• Mushrooms are a fungi
• They are heterotrophic (can’a make their own food)
• Use enzymes to break down food

Protista 

• Are related to either plants, animals or fungi (one of them, not related to
• all of them at the same time)

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