All About Classes of Animal

Wednesday reading about classes of animals

Class ‘Aves’

New words

•  Maintain - keep
•  Possess - have 
•  Grasp - grab 
• Wading - walking through water 
• Rapidly - quickly, fast
• Talons - claws on toes

Main characteristics of Aves 

• Warm blooded vertebrates that have wings and feathers
• Different kinds of birds eat different foods -
• they eat seeds, nectar from flowers, insects,
• worms, and sometimes small animals. 
• Birds have beaks. 
• Birds are bipedal. 
• There are 4 types of birds - perching birds,
• flightless birds, birds of prey and water birds. 

Class ‘Amphibians’

New words

•  Respiration - breathing 
•  Aids - helps
•  Terrestrial - land 
• Offspring - babies, children 
• Larvae - the early stage of life
• (look like a maggot kind of)
• Metamorphosis - the process of growing 
• Hind legs - back legs
• Aquatic - live in water 

Main characteristics of amphibians  

•  Live both on land and water.
• Lay eggs in water. 
• Cold-blooded 
• Breathe through their skin -
• their skin must stay moist.
• Have webbed feet.

Class ‘Fish’

New words

•  Torpedo-shaped - shaped like a rocket
•  External - outside

Main characteristics of fish

•    Cold-blooded
• Have fins and gills
• Fish don’t get pregnant, they put their eggs
• (babies) into the water.

Class ‘reptiles’

New words

•  Locomotion - movement
• •  Broad - wide
  •  Narrow - skinny 
  • Fangs - teeth
  • Venom - poisonous liquid 
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  Main characteristics of reptiles
  • Dry-scaly like skin 
  • Limbs make them go fast
  • Lay eggs 
  • Have earholes, not ears
  • Cold-blooded 
  
  
  Class ‘mammals’
  New words
  • Sweat glands - part of your
  • body that makes you sweat
  • Partially - part 
  • Derived - comes from 
  • Insulator - keep warm 
  • Approximately - about, roughly 
  Main characteristics of mammals 
  • Warm blooded
  • Have live babies and mothers feed babies milk
  • Large brains 
  • Partially covered in hair - to keep them warm 
  • Have sweat glands - to keep them cool 
  • Have skin 
  • Have external ears (pinnae)
  
  
  Fun facts!
  • Snakes don’t have noses
  • Turtles mostly live in water, and
  • tortoises mostly live on land