Animal kingom

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  • Animal Kingdom

    Divided into two groups: Invertebrates and Vertebrates
  • Invertebrates

    Animals without a backbone
  • Types of Invertebrates

    • Worms
    • Sea Jellies
    • Mollusks
    • Anthropods
    • Sponges
  • Worms

    • Have long, soft bodies with no legs
    • Have two body openings
  • Worms

    • Earthworms
  • Sea Jellies

    • Have soft and long stinging bodies
    • Use their stingers to stun their prey before pulling them into their stomach
  • Sea Jellies

    • Jellyfish
  • Mollusks

    • Have soft and warm bodies
    • Many have hard shells
  • Mollusks

    • Snail
    • Octopus
    • Squid
  • Anthropods

    • Have their skeleton on the outside of their bodies
  • Anthropods

    • Cockroaches
    • Spiders
  • Sponges

    • Generally live in saltwater
    • Don't move from place to place
    • Filter nutrients and tiny organisms out of water for food
  • Invertebrates will eat almost anything that was or is alive
  • 97% of all animal species are invertebrates
  • Why wouldn't I be, huh? See that friends? Mr. Frog can breathe both inside and outside of water!
  • Well well, it's no Magic my friends. It's just a way of life for some animals in the animal kingdom.
  • The Animal Kingdom is divided into two groups
    1. Invertebrates
    2. Vertebrates
  • Vertebrates

    Animals with a backbone
  • Vertebrates are further split into smaller groups

    • Amphibians
    • Reptiles
    • Birds
    • Mammals
  • Amphibians

    • Can live both on land and water
    • Cold-blooded
    • Lay eggs coated in jelly
    • Have gills to breathe under water and lungs to breathe on land
  • Reptiles

    • Have dry scaly bodies
    • Lay eggs on land
    • Spend almost all their time under water
    • Cold-blooded
  • Birds

    • Have feathers and wings
    • Lay hard-shelled eggs
    • Warm-blooded
  • Mammals

    • Give birth to young ones
    • Have lungs to breathe
    • Warm-blooded
    • Have hair or fur
    • Have special glands to produce milk for their young ones
  • Even Humans are Mammals!
  • Animals without a backbone are called Invertebrates
  • There are approximately 52,000 species of Vertebrates