P3 Classifying Animals (Concept Map)

Grouping animals by what they share

Animals are sorted into broad groups using features you can see and test

Animals are grouped by features you can observe — covering, breathing, habitat, food, reproduction.

Vertebrate = has a backbone · invertebrate = no backbone.

Mammals: hair or fur, feed young with milk. Birds: feathers and a beak. Insects: three body parts, six legs.

Breathe with lungs (mammals, birds, reptiles), gills (fish), lungs and moist skin (adult amphibians), spiracles (insects).

Warm-blooded (mammals, birds) keep a constant body temperature; cold-blooded animals do not.

Backbone or not

With a backbonean animal that has a backbone is called a vertebrate

Without onean animal that has no backbone is called an invertebrate

Why we start herethis one feature splits the animal kingdom into two large groups

What covers the body

Hair or furmammals are covered with hair or fur and feed their young with milk

Feathersbirds are covered with feathers and have a beak

Scales or shellsfish and reptiles have scales, and some animals have hard shells that shield them

How they breathe

Through lungsmammals, birds and reptiles use lungs; an adult amphibian uses lungs and its moist skin

Through gillsmost animals that live in water, such as fish, breathe through their gills

Through spiraclesinsects breathe through small breathing holes along the abdomen called spiracles

Where they live

On landanimals that live on land are called terrestrial animals

In wateranimals that live in water are called aquatic animals

Bothanimals that live on land and in water are called semi-aquatic animals

What they eat

Plant-eatersherbivores feed on plants only

Animal-eaterscarnivores feed on animals only

Bothomnivores feed on both plants and animals

How they reproduce

Born alive or hatchedsome animals give birth to their young alive, while others lay eggs that hatch

Living or moving aboutanimals fly, glide, crawl, walk, run, jump, slither, swim or dive

Warm or cold bloodedmammals and birds keep a constant body temperature; insects, fish and most reptiles do not