🐌🐍🐎🐠 Unit 3: Animals 🐇🐄🐧🐞
1.) How do animals stay alive?
Nutrition:
Depending on the food they
eat, animals are classified into carnivores,
herbivores and omnivores.
- Carnivores: kill other animals and eat them.
- Herbivores: eat plants and fruit.
- Omnivores: eat everything.
- Decomposers: eat dead plants and animals.
- Scavengers: eat the remains of dead animals.
2.) What is sensitivity in animals?
Interaction or sensitivity:
- Animals react to their environment to survive.
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Animals get their food and escape from bigger animals.
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Different animals move in different ways (swim, fly, run).
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They make sounds to communicate.
3.) How do animals reproduce?
Reproduction:
Animals have babies.
Depending on the type of reproduction, animals can be:
- Oviparous: animals that are born from eggs.
- Viviparous: animals that are born directly from their mother’s womb.
- Ovoviviparous: the eggs develope inside the mothers body and hatch inside. The, the mother gives birth to them.
4.) Where do animals live?
A habitat is a place where animals live. They need 5 things: water, food, air, space and shelter.5.) What are vertebrate animals like?
VERTEBRATES:
Animals that have an inner
skeleton made up of bones. They have
a spine. Most vertebrates
have a head, a torso, limbs and a tail.
6.) How are vertebrates different?
There are five groups of
vertebrates:
Mammals:
- They have hair or fur.
- They breathe with lungs.
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They give birth to young live, they
feed their babies with milk.
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They live on land, but some
are aquatic. But only one mammal can fly! The bat.
Birds:
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Birds have a beak and wings
for flying. Their bodies are covered with feathers.
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They breathe with lungs.
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They lay eggs, they are oviparous. Some birds, such as ducks and penguins live in water.
Reptiles:
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Their skin is covered with scales.
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Reptiles breathe with lungs.
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They live on land, but some
are aquatic.
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Reptiles are oviparous, they lay eggs.
Fish:
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Fish have scales and they
use fins to swim.
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All fish are aquatic
animals, they breathe with gills.
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Fish are oviparous, they lay eggs.
Amphibians:
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Amphibians have moist skin.
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When they are young they
breathe with gills, but when they
are adults, they develop lungs.
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They can live on land or in water.
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Amphibians are oviparous, they lay their eggs in water.
7.) What are invertebrate animals like?
INVERTEBRATES:
Invertebrates do not have a spine. There are
many different groups of invertebrates:
8.) Games and activities:
Oviparous vs. viviparous:
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