1. Classification What do you know about classification?

2. How is a grocery store organized?

4. What is classification and why is classification important? Classification puts things into groups. It makes things easier to find, identify, and study.

5. How would you classify organisms?

6. What is scientific classification? Group organisms based on common traits and adaptations

7. How do scientists classify organisms? Group first into: – Kingdoms (the largest) – Phylum – Class – Order – Family – Genus (first part of scientific name) – Species (second part of scientific name) Use binomial nomenclature (two- parted names) to identify species

10. How many species of animals do you think there are?

11. As of 2010… Vertebrate Animals Mammals5,490 Birds9,998 Reptiles9,084 Amphibians6,433 Fishes31,300 Total Vertebrates62,305 Invertebrate Animals Insects1,000,000 Spiders and scorpions102,248 Molluscs85,000 Crustaceans47,000 Corals2,175 Others68,827 Total Invertebrates1,305,250

12. Some of the phyla… of 36 Phylum Porifera (“pore bearing”) – sponges Phylum Platyhelminthes (“flatworm”) Phylum Annelida (“ringed) - worms Phylum Cnidaria (“possessing stings”) – corals, sea anemones, jellyfish Phylum Arthropoda (“jointed legs”) – insects and crustaceans Phylum Mollusca (“soft bodied”) – snail, squid, octopus, clam Phylum Echinodermata (“hedgehog skin”) - sea urchin, sea cucumber, sea star Phylum Chordata (chord = string)

13. Phylum Porifera (“pore bearing”) – sponges

14. Phylum Platyhelminthes (“flatworm”)

15. Phylum Annelida (“ringed) - worms

16. Phylum Cnidaria (“possessing stings”) – corals, sea anemones, jellyfish

17. Phylum Arthropoda (“jointed legs”) – insects and crustaceans

18. Phylum Mollusca (“soft bodied”) – snail, squid, octopus, clam

19. Phylum Echinodermata (“hedgehog skin”) - sea urchin, sea cucumber, sea star

20. Phylum Chordata (chord = string) Class Chondrichythes (chondro = cartilage; ichthys = fish) – sharks, rays Class Osteichythes (osteo = bone) – boney fish Class Reptilia (reptili = creeping) - turtles, lizards Class Amphibia (amphi = on both sides, double; bios = life) - frogs Class Aves (avi = a bird) Class Mammalia (mamma, mammil = milk fed)

21. Class Chondrichythes (chondro = cartilage; ichthys = fish) – sharks, rays

22. Class Osteichythes (osteo = bone) – boney fish

23. Class Reptilia (reptili = creeping) - turtles, lizards

24. Class Amphibia (amphi = on both sides, double; bios = life) - frogs

25. Class Aves (avi = a bird)

26. Class Mammalia (mamma, mammil = milk fed)