1. How do different animals live, grow, and change?
How Animals Live?
How do different animals live, grow, and change?

2. Classifying Vertebrates
A body feature passed on to
an animal from its parents is called
a trait. Traits can include things an
animal does.
All animals need water, oxygen, food, and shelter
Animals can be classified, or divided, into two groups.
Those that have a backbone.
Those that don’t have a backbone.
A backbone is a series of bones that run down the
back of some animals.
An animal that has a backbone is called a vertebrate

3. What is the series of bones that runs down my back called?
A. Root stem
B. backbone
C. Vertebrate
A Vertebrate such as this horse has a skeleton inside its body.

4. Mammals Vertebrates can be classified into several smaller groups.
One of these groups is the mammal group.
A mammal is an animal that has hair/fur and produces
milk for its young.
They need oxygen, a gas in the air, to live and they
breath the air with their lungs.
Most mammals have a thick coat of hair or fur that
Traps air against their body for warmth.

5. What are two traits of Mammals?
Sea lions are mammals that live both in water and on land. Even
Mammals that live in water have lungs and most breath air.

6. Birds A bird is a vertebrate that has feathers, wings, and two legs.
Birds lay eggs that have hard shells.
Most birds can fly.
Feathers keep a bird warm, but are light so they do not
weigh the bird down.

7. How are the bodies of mammals and birds alike and different?
Bird of Paradise are found in western Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Australia. The members of this family are perhaps best known for the plumage of the males of most species.

8. Fish Fish are vertebrates that live in water.
Fish have long, narrow bodies that make it easy to move
through water.
Most fish are covered with scales that protect them.
Like all animals fish need oxygen to live, but they don’t
have lungs. Instead they breath through gills.

9. What are two traits of fish?
All fish have backbones. Sharks and Rays have backbones
Made of cartilage, a material that is softer than bone.

10. Amphibians An amphibian is a vertebrate that starts life in water and
then lives on land as an adult.
Amphibians lay eggs in water and their young breath
through gills and have tails to help them swim.
As the young grow, their bodies change. Lungs and legs
grow and gills disappear.
After an amphibians body changes, they live on land.

11. An animal lives in water, has fur, and breathes with lungs. Would you
classify it as a bird,
a mammal, a fish,
or an amphibian?
Frogs have wet, smooth skin. Wet skin prevents their bodies
from drying out on land.

12. Reptiles A reptile has dry, scaly, skin and lays eggs on land.
The scales protect them from the hot sun
Reptiles can live in many different environments.
Some use legs to move, others slither on the ground.
All reptiles breath with lungs and reptiles that spend a lot
of time in water must stick their noses out to breath.

13. Why do alligators and crocodiles have to stick their noses out
of the water?

14. Animal Classification Game
Directions: If you think the animal is a mammal, circle it. If it’s a fish, put an X
through it. If you think it’s a bird, box it. If you think it is a reptile, triangle it.
Animal
Classification
Game

15. Invertebrates Animals without a backbone
includes sea stars, butterflies, and spiders
Many invertebrates are very small
a soft sac filled with liquid supports worms and sea jellies
Insects and other arthropods have a hard covering on the
outside of their bodies.

16. Major Kinds of Invertebrate Animals

18. Directions: If you think the animal is a sea jelly, circle it
Directions: If you think the animal is a sea jelly, circle it. If it’s a worm, put an X
through it. If you think it’s a Mollusk, box it. If you think it is a arthropod, triangle it.

19. Chapter two lesson one and two
Quiz – log in to Mr. Elliott’s website and go to 3rd grade science interactive. At the very bottom under files you will find Ch. 2-1 quiz. Open it and finish the quiz. Print off when finished.

20. Amphibian life cycle

21. Frog Eggs

22. Tadpole

23. Tadpole changing into frog

24. Adult frog

25. Salamander turning into an adult

26. adult Salamander

27. Assignment:
Make an illustration that shows the life cycle of an amphibian.
The picture should show these stages:
Egg
Young living in water
Changing into an adult
Adult living on land
Please choose a frog, a toad, or a salamander.

28. Great Job!!

29. Please Guess again!!