Classifying Animals

Introduction

Animals are put into two different groups. Vertebrate and invertebrate. Vertebrate animals are animals with a spine. Invertebrate animals don’t have a spine. In this power point, every slide is about a different animal. The last slide or two have the resources of how I got all the information. There will be things like fish, whales, leopards, wolves. All sorts of information about many different animals. I hope that you enjoy the power point I made.

Whales

Whales breathe using their blowhole.

Their tails are called flukes. The whales swim by moving their flukes up and down.

There are over 80 species of whales.

There are two groups of whales. One is baleen. Baleen whales are whales who have a special type of teeth that are long. The other group is toothed. Toothed whales have small teeth for catching prey.

Whales are vertebrates.

Leopards

Leopards are one of the only four types of cats that can roar. Lions, tigers, and jaguars are the other cats that can roar.

Leopards are vertebrates.

The leopard’s Latin name is Panthera Pardus.

They are very strong. Leopards will usually carry their prey up in a tree just to keep it away from scavengers.

Leopards are powerful and graceful creatures.

Owls

Owls have large, forward-facing eyes.

Owls are the only raptors that hunt at night.

These creatures have a silent flight.

Owls are vertebrates.

Fish

Fish have gills to breathe underwater.

Fish do not have to have scales. Sharks are fish, and they don’t have scales.

Fish are divided up into three groups. The first one is cartilaginous. It means that the fish has cartilage instead of bones like sharks. They are still vertebrates. The second one is bony fish. These types of fish means that their bone is made out of real bone. There are many fish that fall into the bony fish. The third one is lobe-finned fish. Lobe-finned fish are a group of bony fish that have paired fins.

Amphibians

These are the three groups that amphibians are put in:

Newts and Salamanders. Newts and salamanders have a long tail and four legs. Newts spend some time on land and some time in water. Salamanders, on the other hand, spend all the time in water.

Frogs and Toads. Frogs and toads are the largest amphibians. Adult frogs and toads don’t have any tail. They begin as a tadpole, and then they become a big, slimy creature.

Caecilians. Not many people know about caecilians. They have no arms and legs and a really short tail. They have a huge resemblance to a snake or worm.

Reptiles

Reptiles include snakes, turtles, squamata, crocodiles, and their family.

They are cold-blooded vertebrates.

Reptiles are from their ancestors, amphibians, from about 340 million years ago.

Scales protect these creatures from loss of body moisture.

Turtles have barely changed for 200 years.

Recourses

http://marinelife.about.com/od/cetaceans/tp/whalefacts.htm

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/leopard/

http://www.etsy.com/listing/155658015/wildlife-earrings-wolf-tiger-or-jaguar

Questions and Answers Animal World

http://animals.about.com/od/fishes/a/tenfactsfishes.htm

http://animals.about.com/od/amphibians/a/amphibian-facts.htm

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Reptilia.html