Date: Wednesday, August 6th 2014.

Topic: Vertebrates Classification.Objective: To classify vertebrate animals.

REPTILES Reptiles have an adapted body for the

terrestrial or aquatic life. They are oviparous, but they do not incubate eggs like birds do.

Their skin is covered by scales and they feed from insects or from another animals. They are cold-blooded animals.

REPTILES CLASIFICATION Reptiles have the following classification:

REVIEW OF REPTILES

AMPHIBIANS They are cold-blooded vertebrates because

the temperature of their body is equal to the environment’s. They have moist and naked skin.

They reproduce by laying eggs which means they are oviparous, they live in the water the first stages of their life and, then, on the ground.

They go through the metamorphosis process.

AMPHIBIANS CLASSIFICATION Amphibians have the following classification:

REVIEW OF AMPHIBIANS

FISH Fish live in the water through their whole life.

Using gills, they breathe oxygen that is dissolved in the water.

They can be carnivores, omnivores and herbivores. They are oviparous, but most of them do not take care of their eggs nor their breed.

Some fish variety live on freshwater, by most of them live on salt water.

FISH CHARACTERISTICS Fish differentiates from the rest of the

Vertebrates by:FINS

SCALESGILLS (FOR BREATHING)

REVIEW OF FISH