ANIMAL KINGDOM

The animal kingdom is divided into two phyla- vertebrates and invertebrates.

Vertebrates.
Fish (31 000 species)

• Live in water
• breathe with gills
• moist skin covered in scales
• most lay eggs
• cartilage or bony skeleton
• cold blooded

    

                             



-FLOUNDER






  Amphibian (7000 species)

• Moist skin
• Lay their eggs in water 
• Larvae breathe with gills
• Adults breathe with lungs
• Adults live in land
• Cold blooded

                     

                              

-SALAMANDER

Reptiles(10 000 species)

• Dry, scaly skin
• Lay eggs
• Breathe with lungs
• Cold blooded

                                           

-LIZARD  

Birds (10 000 species)

• Covered in feathers 
• Lay eggs with hard shells
• Have wings
• Warm blooded
• Breathe with lungs

-EAGLE 

MAMMALS (5 500 species)

• Body covered in hair or fur
• Feed young on milk
• Warm blooded
• Breathe using lungs

-WOLF

       Invertebrates

  True Worms(24 000 species)

• Body is tubular  and/or made up of segments
• Tube like digestive system

-ANNELID

Flat worms(12 000 species)

• Breathe through their skin
• Unsegmented body

-FLUKES

Sponges(10 000 species)

• Take in water through their pores(little holes) in their bodies from which they filter (take out) little bits of food

-HEXACTINELLIDA

Cnidarians(9 000 species)

• Hollow body with specialized cells (stingers) that they use for capturing prey
• Live in water

 -JELLYFISH

Molluscs(100 000 species)

• Most live in sea
• Most have shells
• Unsegmented body

-SQUID

Echinoderms (9 000 species)

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• A skeleton made up of five plates
• Tube feet
• Live in the sea  

      

 -STARFISH   

                           

Arthropods-(>1 000 000 species)

• Jointed legs
• Divided into four further sub-groups

-SPIDER 

Crustaceans

• Most are aquatic
• Body divided into three parts
• Most breathe with gills
• Hard outer skeletons

-CRAB

Myriapods

• Many pairs of legs
• Single pair of of antennae
• Simple eyes

-CENTIPEDE  

Insects

• Body divided into three parts
• Three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings
• One pair of antennae on head
• Compound eyes

-BEE 

Arachnids

• Body divided into two parts
• Four pair of legs and no wings
• No antennae

-SCORPION