characteristics of animals
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Characteristics of Animals. Sources: (partial list) Yahooligans, animals http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals/ Electronic Zoo http://netvet.wustl.edu/ssi.htm. Our Class Animal: Fish. Goldfish: has bones inside breathes using gills fins for swimming eyes to see - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Characteristics of Animals
Sources: (partial list)
Yahooligans, animalshttp://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals/
Electronic Zoohttp://netvet.wustl.edu/ssi.htm
Our Class Animal: FishGoldfish:
has bones inside
breathes using gills
fins for swimming
eyes to see
mouth to eat
Robyn’s Goldfish Page: http://www.fishpondinfo.com/gfish.htm
Our Class Animal: Snail Snails:
soft bodied, no bones
shell for protection
Breathes through skin or gills (some snails have a simple lung)
mouth scrapes food off of surfaces – tiny plants
“eyes” on tentacles
moves on a flat “foot”
All About Snails: http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Snails/ Song link: http://www.songsforteaching.com/intellitunes/snail.
htm
Snail mouth
Comparing Goldfish and Snails
How are goldfish and snails alike
and different?
Our Class Animal: Earthworm
Earthworm:
long tube body
many body segments
no bones
breathes through skin
simple eyes (light/dark)
mouth to eat
worm mouth
Comparing Worms and Snails
How are worms and snails alike
and different?
Our Class Animal: Gerbil
Gerbil:
• has bones
• ears to hear
• eyes to see
• nose and lungs to breathe
• mouth to eat
• four legs to move
• long tail
• fur coatAmerican Gerbil Society (Gerbil Care):http://agsgerbils.org/Gerbil_Care_Handbook/intro.html#what
Comparing Gerbils and Fish
How are gerbils and fish alike
and different?
What is another animal that is like a gerbil?
How are gerbils and ______ alike and different?
?
What are fish like?
Large Mouth Bass
Great White Shark
Atlantic Salmon
How is a Goldfish the same or different than a Rainbow Trout?
Goldfish: http://fish.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/Cyprinidae/goldfish.jpg
Rainbow Trout: http://www.usbr.gov/mp/ccao/field_offices/new_melones/images/activities_rainbow_trout.jpg
What is a fish?
Fishes come in an amazing variety of shapes and colors, but they all have three important things in common.
All fishes live in water, have fins, and use gills to get oxygen from the water.
An animal with bones having fins for moving, gills for breathing, and usually scales.
Do you know what animal this is?
Bullfrog
Toad
Frogs and Toads
Spotted Salamander
How is a salamander the same or different than a frog?
What is an amphibian?
Like fishes, amphibians are vertebrates –- that is, creatures with a backbone and an skeleton (bones) inside.
Amphibians live part of their life in water and part on land. Even those species that lay eggs on land start life in a fluid-filled egg, breathing through gills.
An animal with bones that is smooth-skinned with a land and water form. The land form has lungs for breathing and legs for moving.
What are reptiles like?
Five lined Skink(Lizard) Painted Turtle
Garter Snake
Reptiles: Alligators and Crocodiles
What is a reptile?
Today there are 6,800 reptile species on earth; the major groups are alligators and crocodiles, turtles, lizards, and snakes.
All reptiles are cold-blooded, which is why they warm themselves in the sun, and have bodies covered in dry, horny scales. Some reptiles lay eggs; others give birth to live young.
An animal with bones inside that is covered with scales. It
What are birds like?
American Goldfinch
Some birds are colorful.
Ring-necked Pheasant
Some birds blend into their surroundings.
Northern Cardinal
Some birds eat seeds.
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Woodpeckers
Some birds eat insects.
Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch
Some birds are the same and different.
Some birds capture and eat animals larger than insects.
Coopers Hawk
talons
Swainsons HawkAmerican Eagle
Snowy Owl
How are these hunters the same?
How are these bird feet the same? How are they different?
Some birds swim on water.
American Coot
Mallard
How are these feet made for swimming?
Are there other birds that you have seen?
What is a bird?
Birds are warm-blooded creatures, like we are, but they lay eggs, like most reptiles.
All birds have feathers and wings, and most birds are able to fly.
Birds are amazingly varied in their shapes, sizes, colors, and behavior patterns. There are more than 9,000 different species of birds in the world.
An animal with bones feathers and wings. Birds have lungs to breathe air.
What are mammals like?
Some mammals spend their time on the ground, some live in
trees.
Deer mouse
Gray Squirrel
Beaver
Some mammals eat plants and spend time in the water.
Eastern Cottontail
Rabbit
Some mammals eat plants and live on land.
Snowshoe Hare
Summer
Winter
Some mammals can change color.
Some mammals have hooves
?What animals do you know
that have hooves?
Little Brown Bat
There is a mammal that flies.
Brown Long-eared Bat
Some mammals eat insects.
Black Bear
Animals that eat other animals are called predators.
Skunk
Mink
What is a mammal?
Mammals live on land, at sea, in the air, and under the ground. All mammals, from bats to whales, share a number of important traits that make them different from other animals.
Mammals are warm-blooded, they have fur or hair, and most mammals give birth to live young (rather than laying eggs).
An animal that feeds its babies with milk from the mother's body and has fur or hair covering it. Mammals have bones (a skeleton) and lungs to breathe air.
Let’s make a list of animal characteristics.
• Animals are living things.• Animals have to “eat” food for energy.• Animals need water.• Animals breath in oxygen from the air.• Animals need a place to live.• Animals give off waste. • Animals react to the world around
them.• Animals create more animals like
themselves.
Are you an animal?