The Animal Kingdom

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The Animal Kingdom

• GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
• Most complex of all kingdoms
• Multicellular (made of many cells)
• They obtain food from OUTSIDE SOURCES
• They move from place to place to get food
• They swallow their food and they digest food
  inside the body.

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The Animal Kingdom- REVIEW

• INVERTEBRATE- An animal that does not have
  a backbone
• 2) VERTEBRATE- An animal that has a backbone

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• 9 Phyla of the Animal kingdom
• Porifera 6) Mollusca
• Coelenterata 7) Echinoderm
• Flatworms 8) Arthropoda
• Roundworms 9) Chordata
• Segmented worms

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The Animal Kingdom Contd

• Porifera
• Means having pores
• Ex sponges

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The Animal Kingdom

• Coelentrata
• Sac-like body
• Have tentacles
• Ex hydras, jelly fish, coral, sea anemones

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• 3 Phyla of Worms
• Flatworms
• Roundworms
• Segmented worms

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• Molluska
• Hard shell surrounding soft body parts
• Live in water damp places
• Examples
• Snail, Sea Scallop
• Only a few do not have shells
• Octopus Sea slug

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• Echinoderms
• Means spiny-skin
• Star shaped
• Spiny
• Ex
• Starfish Sea Urchin

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• Arthropoda
• Makes up 75 of the animal kingdom
• Basic Characteristics
• hard external skeleton
• segmented body
• jointed legs
• Ex beetle, milli centipede, spider, crab

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• Chordata
• Vertebrates
• Have internal skeleton
• Vertebral column
• Limbs
• Ex fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals