Life Science-Animals Part 1 of 2 Abney Elementary Mrs. Delaup

1. What are the two classification of animals? Animals can be classified as simple animals or complex animals.

2. What is a simple animal? A simple animal has very few cells that make up its body. Its body is made of few parts. Example: sponge or worm

3. What is a complex animal? Many animals we know are complex animals; they are made up of many parts.

4. Animals can be divided into two groups based on the structures that support their bodies. What are the two groups? Animals can be divided into two groups based on the structures that support their bodies: vertebrates and invertebrates.

5. What is a vertebrate? Vertebrates are animals with a backbone. Examples: birds, snakes, bats, and humans – A. A bat is considered a mammal because they are vertebrates, have fur body coverings, give birth to live young, and nurse or feed their young with milk made by the mother.

6. What is an invertebrate? Invertebrates are animals that do not have a backbone. An outer covering, such as a shell, usually supports the body of an invertebrate.

7. What is the largest group of invertebrates? Arthropods are the largest group of invertebrates. Examples: ants, spiders, and crabs

8. What do all animals become? All animals become adults resembling their parents, and produce young of their own.

9. What is metamorphosis and give an example. Animals grow and develop in many ways. THIS PROCESS OF CHANGE IS CALLED Metamorphosis. Insects such as butterflies lay eggs. The eggs hatch into caterpillars. The caterpillar grows and sheds its skin several times. The last time it sheds it seals itself inside a tough shell, or chrysalis. Finally an adult butterfly breaks out of the chrysalis. Another animal that goes through metamorphisms is a frog….egg to tadpole to frog

10. What is an environment? An environment is everything that surrounds and affects an animal, including living and nonliving things REMEMBER: An ecosystem is groups of living things and the environment they live in and habitat is an environment that meets the needs of an organism

11.What are the five basic needs of animals? Animals have 5 basic needs: proper climate, oxygen, food, water, and shelter

12. What is climate? Climate is the average temperature and rainfall of an area over many years.

13. What do animals have to meet their needs? Animals have adaptations to meet their needs in different environments/ecosystems. Ex: Animals who can survive with very little water can live in a dry climate. In a wet and warm ecosystem such as a rainforest, monkeys and birds live in the trees.

14. Where do animals get oxygen? Oxygen is one of the many gases in air. Many land animals get oxygen from breathing in air. Fish get oxygen from the water around them.

15. What is the importance of food? Food provides animals with the energy and material they need to live and grow.

16. Do all animals eat the same kind of food? Different animals need different kinds of food. Ex: Zebras and rhinos are plant eaters (herbivores); while lions and leopards feed on meat provided by other animals (carnivores).

17. Where do animals get the water they need? Animals get the water they need for survival from ponds, lakes, streams, and puddles. Others get moisture from the food they eat or as the body produces water as food is digested.

18. How do animals lose water? Some animals require more water than others. They lose water from sweating, panting, or other means.

19. Why is shelter important to an animal? Animals need shelter so they can protect themselves from other animals or from the weather.

20. Where might a squirrel get food, water, and shelter and how would this be different from a lion? Squirrel’s Food: nuts, seeds, berries from trees Water-puddles, water from foods, bird baths Shelter-hollows in trees or nest in trees