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Science-Vertebrates and Invertebrates

Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone, while invertebrates do not. Vertebrates first evolved over 530 million years ago and include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Invertebrates make up most animal species and include protozoa, worms, mollusks, arthropods like insects and crustaceans. Vertebrates are either cold-blooded like fish, amphibians and reptiles, relying on the environment for temperature regulation, or warm-blooded like birds and mammals who generate their own heat.

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Science-Vertebrates and Invertebrates

Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone, while invertebrates do not. Vertebrates first evolved over 530 million years ago and include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Invertebrates make up most animal species and include protozoa, worms, mollusks, arthropods like insects and crustaceans. Vertebrates are either cold-blooded like fish, amphibians and reptiles, relying on the environment for temperature regulation, or warm-blooded like birds and mammals who generate their own heat.

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Vertebrates and Invertebrates Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone.

The backbone consists of ring-like bones that protect the soft spinal cord. Vertebrates evolved during the Cambrian period, over 530 million years ago. The first vertebrates were paper clip-sized, jawless, toothless fish. Other vertebrates include amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Invertebrates are animals that do not have a backbone. Most of the animals on earth are invertebrates. Invertebrates are cold-blooded; their body temperature depends on the temperature of their environment. Many invertebrates have a fluid-filled, hydrostatic skeleton, like the jelly fish or worm. Others have a hard outer shell, like insects. There are many types of invertebrates. The most common invertebrates include the protozoa, annelids, echinoderms, mollusks and arthropods. Arthropods include insects, crustaceans and arachnids. The five groups of Vertebrates are Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Bird, and Mammals. Fish These vertebrates spend their entire life in fresh water, ocean water, or actually both. Most fish have slippery scales and breathe not through noses but through gills.

Amphibians

Amphibians- Frogs, toads, and salamanders are vertebrates called amphibians. Many amphibians spend part of their lives in water and part on land. They get oxygen through gills and through their moist skin. As they grow older they will develop lungs and they will use those to breath.

Cold blooded and warm blooded animals.

A cold blooded animal, is one that does not have an internal mechanism for regulating its body temperature. Instead, a cold blooded animal relies on solar energy captured by the environment. Reptiles, amphibians and fish are examples of cold blooded animals.

Warm-blooded creatures, like mammals and birds, try to keep the inside of their bodies at a constant temperature. They do this by generating their own heat when they are in a cooler environment, and by cooling themselves when they are in a hotter environment. To generate heat, warm-blooded animals convert the food that they eat into energy. They have to eat a lot of food, compared with cold-blooded animals, to maintain a constant body temperature. Only a small amount of the food that a warm-blooded animal eats is converted into body mass. The rest is used to fuel a constant body temperature.

CONCLUSION. Classification is very important since it categorizes living things into their characteristics. It helps us to identify different groups of living things. It is human nature to know what everything is, it has to have a name and a class. There is no real reason though, it is just an instinct. Due to all these reasons classification is vital for all of us. Reference.
www.coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu www.sheppardsoftware.com www.factmonster.com Science Animals http://www.enchantedlearning.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate

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