The document summarizes the key characteristics used to classify vertebrate animals into five groups: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. It outlines where each group lives, how they have offspring, how they move, how they breathe, and their skin type/covering. Mammals are distinguished from reptiles by being viviparous and having fur/hair. Birds are distinguished from fish by living on land, using wings to move, breathing with lungs, and having feathers. The document aims to teach the differences between vertebrate classification groups.
2. Is this animal a bird or a
reptile?
How
do you know?
What makes this
animal a bird?
It’s a bird!
3. Is this animal a bird or a
reptile?
Where
does it live?
It lives on land
Does
it lay eggs?
Yes! It lays eggs
How
does it move
around?
It uses its wings
4. Is this animal a bird or a
reptile?
How
does it
breathe?
It uses its lungs
What is its skin
It has feathers
like?
5. Is this animal a bird or a
reptile?
How
do you know
What makes this
animal a reptile?
It’s a reptile!
6. Is this animal a bird or a
reptile?
Where
does it live?
It lives on land
Does
it lay eggs?
Yes! It lays eggs
How
does it move
around?
It uses its legs
7. Is this animal a bird or a
reptile?
How
does it
breathe?
It uses its lungs
What is its
It has scales
skin like?
9. Whatmakes a mammal a
mammal?
They
live on land
They are viviparous
They use legs to move around
They breathe using their lungs
They have fur or hair
11. Whatmakes a bird a bird?
They
live on land
They are oviparous
They use wings to move around
They breathe using their lungs
They have feathers
13. Whatmakes a reptile a reptile?
They
live on land
They are oviparous
They use legs to move around
They breathe using their lungs
They have scales
14. What we’ve learned
Mammals Birds
Reptiles
What
do the three
have in common?
Where they live:
Viviparous Oviparous Oviparous
Land
Land
Land
Land
Legs
Wings
Legs
Feathers
Scales
Fur or
Hair
Land
Land
What
aspect is
different for all
three?
Their skin:
Fur or
Hair
Feathers Scales
15. What can you remember?
What is the difference between mammals
and reptiles? (hint: there are 2)
Mammals:
are viviparous
have fur or hair
Reptiles:
are oviparous
have scales
19. Whatmakes a fish a fish?
They
live in water
They are oviparous
They use fins to move around
They breathe using their gills
They have shiny scales
20. And the differences?
Where
they live
How they have
their young
How they move
around
How they
breathe
Their skin:
Mammal
Land
Viviparous
Use legs
Lungs
Fur/ Hair
Bird
Land
Oviparous
Use wings
Lungs
Feathers
Reptile
Land
Oviparous
Use legs or
slither
Lungs
Scales
Amphibian Land/W
Oviparous
Use legs
Lungs or
through
skin
Bare
Fish
Oviparous
Fins and tail
Oxygen
Scales
from water
ater
Water
21. And the differences?
Where
they live
Mammal
Bird
Reptile
How they have
their young
How they move
around
How they
breathe
Their skin:
Land
Viviparous
Use legs
Lungs
Fur/ Hair
Land
Oviparous
Use wings
Lungs
Feathers
Land
Oviparous
Lungs
Scales
/
Land
Amphibian Water
Fish
Water
Oviparous
Oviparous
Use legs slither
or
Use legs
Fins and tail
Lungs or
through
skin
Gills
Bare skin
Scales
22. Which is unique in where it lives?
Where
they live
Mammal
Land
Bird
Land
Reptile
Land
Amphibian
Land/Water
Fish
Water
23. Which is unique in how it has
their young?
How they have
their young
Mammal
Viviparous
Bird
Oviparous
Reptile
Oviparous
Amphibian
Oviparous
Fish
Oviparous
24. What can you remember?
What is the difference between mammals
and reptiles? (hint: there are 2)
Mammals:
are viviparous
have fur or hair
Reptiles:
are oviparous
have scales
25. What can you remember?
What is the difference between birds and
fish? (hint: there are 4)
Birds:
live on land
use wings to move
around
breathe using their
lungs
have feathers
Fish:
live in water
use fins to move
around
breathe using their
gills
have shiny scales
