Classification Living Things
Classification Living Things
Classification Living Things
Look at the pictures and say if they are living or not living.
Ranclaud
Science - CLASSIFICATION – what is it?
Classicification is:
putting things that have something the same or similar into one group
putting things into a different group if they are not the same
These three shapes are the same: These three things are the same:
These three shapes are similar: These three things are similar:
These three shapes are all different: These three things are all different:
2. Reptiles have ___________ skin and lay ___________ __________ eggs. They do
not live in the __________ when they are young. Frogs, however, have smooth,
_________ skin and lay soft __________ in water. Young frogs, or tadpoles, live in
water when they are young and on ___________ when they are adults. So we cannot
classify frogs as reptiles because they have different characteristics from reptiles.
3. Mammals _________ their young. This means that they __________ them on milk.
This is a characteristic of all mammals not just some of them.
4. Amphibians live in water when they are ___________. They lay __________ eggs,
that is, eggs without a __________. Reptiles live on ___________. They lay
__________ shelled eggs. Thus amphibians and reptiles lay different kinds of eggs.
5. All birds have wings. Most of them use their _________ to flu. However, the ostrich
and the penguin cannot fly. So , most birds can fly but not all of them.
6. Some types of reptiles are _________, lizards and ________. Lizards and turtles
have limbs. Snakes do not have _________. Therefore, most retiles have limbs.
7. Fish are __________ blooded animals. They live in the _________ so they also have
__________ and scales. So all fish have fins, scales and gills.
8. Amphibians are different from most animals because they have a _________ life.
This means that the young ones spend their early lives in the _________. They
cannot live on __________. When they are adults, however they can leave the water,
T his young amphibians must live in water.
CHARACTERISTICS OF VETEBRATES
Vertebrates are animals which have backbones. List the five groups of
vertebrates.
4. _____________ 5. _____________
1. ___________________ 2. ___________________
MAMMALS
1. All mammals are _____________ blooded.
BIRDS
1. All birds are warm ________________.
____________.
AMPHIBIANS
1. Most amphibians have _________ moist skin. They do not have claws or
___________.
FISH
1. All fish live in ___________.
cold-blood warm-blood
has has has scales (no has has
slimy fins) hair/fur feathers
fins
skin