New words from animal kingdom reading
Monday’s reading
- Organism - a living thing
- Vertebrate - has a spine
- Invertebrate - has no spine
- Taxonomy - a way to group things
- Diverse - a big range
- Amphibians - organisms that live
- in water and on land
- Heterotrophic - means they must
- find and eat food
- Autotrophic - an organism that can make
- its own food
- Primates (apes, monkeys)
- Rodents (rats, squirrels)
- Cetaceans (dolphins, whales)
- Marsupials (kangaroos, koalas)
- Monotremes (egg laying mammals
- like the platypus)
- Autotrophic - make their own food by
- photosynthesis
- Photosynthesis - how plants make their
- own food
- Vascular - uses roots to absorb water
- Nonvascular - uses the whole plant to absorb
- water
- Decompose, decomposition - to break down
- Non-flowering - no flowers
- Thermophiles - (root word is thermo which
- is about temperature)
Big ideas from the reading
- All living things are called organisms.
- They are organised into 6 groups called kingdoms.
- Each group has certain characteristics that each
- organism must have.
- Animals
- Can move on their own
- Are heterotrophic (can’t make their own food)
- Must eat to survive
- Vertebrates and invertebrates
- Plants
- They are Autotrophic (they make their own food)
- Some are vascular and nonvascular.
- If a plant has seeds or fruit, it is a flowering plant.
- Eubacteria
- Are made up of just one cell. They are
- everywhere. Some bacteria are good
- and some are bad.
- Bacteria called decomposers break
- down dead plants and anacteria.
Archaebacteria
- Can survive where no other organism can live.
- Thermophiles, methanogens and halophiles
Fungi
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