1. Next: Basics of ecology
Overview of how ecosystems work
Start going through major categories of animals
Review classification of biology
Fish – (& sharks)
Crustaceans & Mollusks
Echinoderms
Corals & jellies
Marine Mammals (whales)

2. The “official” list to be called LIVING
Living things are made of cells.
Living things obtain and use energy.
Living things grow and develop.
Living things reproduce
Living things respond to their environment.
Living things adapt to their environment.

3. Domains/ Kingdoms “Living” 3Domains Bacteria Archaea Eukarya 6Kingdoms
Kingdom Bacteria
Kindom Archea
Kingdom Protista
Kingdom Plantae
Kingdom Fungi
Kingdom Animalia
“Living”

4. The five kingdoms Heterotroph Mobile & injest Autotroph Heterotroph
Nonmobile & absorb
Autotroph & hetero
Most bacteria are hetertrophs – but some are autotrophs also (deep sea vents)

5. Recall the other groups after kingdom

6. Each sub group using a common physiological trait to group more and more similar things together
protist
Animal
PLant P1 P2 P3 P1 P2 P3 P1 P2 P3 C1 C1 C1

7. “Fish”
What you and I call a “fish” is class of the CHORDATA/VERTEBRATES phylum
Living things
FUNGUS
BACTERIA
PLANT
ANIMAL
ARCHEA
MOLLUSCS
ARTHROPODS
CHORDATA
CNIDERIA

8. “Fish” IS one of the vertebrates
CHORDATA
FISH
REPTILES
MAMMALS
BIRDS
AMPHIBIANS

9. So… what is a “fish”
A fish is any aquatic vertebrate animal that equipped with paired fins gills

10. Fish external physiology