2. CONTENTS
CLASSIFYING LIVING THINGS: KINGDOMS
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
What animals eat
How animals move.
How animals interact.
How animals are born.
VERTEBRATE ANIMALS
What is a vertebrate animal?
Fish.
Amphibians.
Reptiles.
Birds.
Mammals.
INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS
What is an invertebrate animal?
Types of invertebrate animals.
3. CLASSIFYING LIVING
THINGS
LIVING THINGS
can be classified as
ANIMALS PLANTS FUNGI
CAN MOVE
AROUND
CAN’T MAKE
THEIR OWN
FOOD
CAN’T MOVE
AROUND
CAN’T MOVE
AROUND
CAN’T MAKE
THEIR OWN
FOOD
CAN MAKE
THEIR OWN
FOOD
6. HOW ANIMALS
MOVE
ON LAND IN THE AIR IN THE WATER
THEY CAN WALK
AND JUMP WITH
THEIR LEGS.
THEY FLY WITH
THEIR WINGS
THEY SWIM WITH
THEIR BODIES,
TAILS AND FINS.
OR
CRAWL WITH
THEIR BODIES.
7. HOW ANIMALS INTERACT
WITH HUMANS
DOMESTIC
THEY KEEP US COMPANY, HELP
US WITH SOME WORKS OR GIVE
US FOOD.
WILD
THEY LIVE FREELY IN THEIR
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
11. WHAT IS A
VERTEBRATE
ANIMAL?
THEY HAVE AN INTERNAL
SKELETON.
Vertebrate animals have a
spinal column formed by
vertebrae.
Vertebrate animals can have
different body parts:
The head-> The skull.
The trunk-> The spinal column,
ribs, shoulder and hips.
The limbs-> Some vertebrates
have legs and arms. Others
have wings or fins. Some
vertebrates have no limbs.
The tail-> An extension of the
spinal column.
HEAD
SPINAL COLUMN
LIMBS
HIP
SHOULDER
RIBS
12. VERTEBRATE
ANIMALS
MAMMALS FISH REPTILES
MOST FISH ARE
OVIPAROUS
ANIMALS AND LIVE
UNDER WATER.
REPTILES ARE
OVIPAROUS
ANIMALS. SOME
REPTILES WALK
AND SOME CRAWL
ON THE GROUND.
MAMMALS ARE
VIVIPAROUS
ANIMALS AND
DRINK THEIR
MOTHER’S MILK
WHEN THEY ARE
BABIES.
AMPHIBIANS BIRDS
AMPHIBIANS ARE OVIPAROUS
ANIMALS AND LIVE UNDER WATER
AND ON LAND.
BIRDS ARE OVIPAROUS ANIMALS
AND THEIR BODY IS COVERED WITH
FEATHERS.