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Animals as Living Things Vocabulary Grade 4. An animal with a backbone is called a vertebrate. A bird is a vertebrate. A human is a vertebrate. Vertebrates are classified by how they control their body temperature.
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An animal with a backbone is called a vertebrate. • A bird is a vertebrate. • A human is a vertebrate.
Vertebrates are classified by how they control their body temperature. • Cold blooded vertebrates (fish, amphibians, and reptiles) get heat from outside the body. • Warm blooded vertebrates (birds and mammals) use energy from food to keep body temperature constant.
An animal without a backbone is called an invertebrate. • A worm is an invertebrate. • An octopus is an invertebrate.
Cnidarians are invertebrates that have poison stingers on tentacles. • Three types of cnidarians are • Hydra • Jellyfish • Seaanemones
Mollusks are soft bodied invertebrates. • Examples of mollusks are • Snails • Clams • Oysters • squids
Echinoderms are spiny skinned invertebrates. • Echinoderms are identified by • A star design • Spiny skin • An internal supporting structure called an endoskeleton.
Arthropods make up the largest invertebrate group. • Arthropods are identified by a hard skeleton on the outside of their bodies called an exoskeleton. • Examples are Arachnids • Centipedesandmillipedes • Crustaceans • Insects
What are animals with backbones, such as humans, called? • vertebrates
What type of vertebrate gets its heat from outside its body?
What type of vertebrate gets its heat from outside its body? • Cold blooded vertebrate
What is an animal without a backbone called? An invertebrate
___________ are invertebrates that have poison stingers on tentacles.
Cnidarians are invertebrates that have poison stingers on tentacles.