2. Characteristics of animals
Animals have some characteristics in
• Animals eat other living things
• Nearly all of them can move from one place
• Some animals are oviparous. They lay eggs
• Some animals are viviparous. They give bir
• Animals have internal parts called organs,
form systems that carry out vital functions
3. Classifying animals
We can classify animals in different wa
We classify animals
according to the type of
food they eat in …..
Herbivores
Carnivores
omnivores
We classify animals
according to the way
they reproduce.
Oviparous
Viviparous
One of the most com
ways to classify an
whether or not the
internal skeleton.
Vertebrate
Invertebra
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7. Sponges
• Sponges live at the botton of the s
• Sponges are fixed to the ground
so they cannot move around.
• Their body is full of pores (holes)
• Food and water enter their body thr
pores.
11. Worms
• Worms have a long soft
segmented body .
• Their body is made up of rings.
• Some worms live in the ground.
• Other worms live in water.
12. Arthropods
• Arthropods are the biggest and
most important group of inverte
• All arthropods have an interna
• skeleton that protects their
• Arthropods have many legs.
16. Insects
• Insects are the largest group
of arthropods.
• Their body is divided into three parts
head, thorax and abdomen.
• They have two antennae .
• Some insects have wings.
dragonfly
19. Arachnids
• Their body is divided into two
cephalothorax and abdomen.
• The cephalothorax is formed
by head and thorax combined.
• Arachnids don´t have antennae
22. Crustaceans
•The majority of crustaceans h
•body divided into two parts :
Cephalothorax and abdomen.
•Crustaceans have two antennae
•Crustaceans don´t have Wings.