Monday 3 December 2012

CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING THINGS

We are studying the classification of all living things in ESO 1. In this post I have summarised the groups we have seen so far.  At the moment, I only intend to mention the groups, without going into detail. Make sure you know these groups well!
 Living things are classified into  5 kingdoms:
ALL LIVING THINGS:
  • Monera Kingdom               bacteria and cyanbacteria
  • Protoctist Kingdom               protozoa and algae
  • Fungi Kingdom                     yeast, mould, mushrooms
  • Plant Kingdom                      mosses, ferns, flowering plants
  • Animal Kingdom                        invertebrates, vertebrates

ANIMAL KINGDOM - INVERTEBRATES:
  • Porifera                                     sponges
  • Cnidaria                jellyfish,polyps,sea anemones
  • Worms           nematodes,platyhelminthes,annelids
  • Molluscs           gastropods,bivalves,cephalopods
  • Echinoderms           echinodea,stelleroidea,crinoidea,holothuroidea,ophiuroidea
  • Arthropods        insects,arachnids,myriapods,crustacean
Look at these posters of invertebrates, these are last years. We will do something similar soon.







Now check out this really interesting link! It's an extremely exhaustive web page about insects. It has photographs and commentaries of a great number of insect species. Remember, insects are athropods, so they have a segmented body, an exoskeleton and jointed appendages. Insects have 3 body parts (head, thorax and abdomen), 6  legs, 2 antennae and 2,4 or no wings.
Click here:







ANIMAL KINGDOM - VERTEBRATES
  • Fish                                  cartilaginous, bony
  • Amphibians                           frogs, toads, newts, salamaders
  • Reptiles                             snakes, lizards, turtles, crocodilians
  • Birds
  • Mammals                            monotremes, marsupials, placentals

3 comments:

Unknown said...

SHEILA I still remember what I did last year OF INVERTEBRATES

Miguel Prats said...

The website of the insects is really interesting and great.

S.Bastian said...

Irene, I'm glad to hear that you can still remember invertebrates from last year, well done!