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Animal Kingdom

Members of this group are multicellular organisms consisting of eukaryotic cells. They perform heterotrophic nutrition.

They are divided into two groups:

VERTEBRATES: They are animals that have a backbone or spine. They are 5% of animals in the world. Vertebrates are divided into fish, amphibian, reptiles, birds and mammals.

INVERTEBRATES: They are animals that don't have a backbone or spine, for example, crabs, jellyfish, insects, squids etc. Most of the animals in the world are invertebrate.

VERTEBRATES

Activity 1.

Watch this video about vertebrates and mark with an X the right characteristics for each group.

Animal classification. Fuse Schol. YouTube. (CC0)

Mammals

Cloze (1): JXUwMDE3 - They have dry, scaly skin.

Cloze (2): JXUwMDAw - They have fur or hair.

Cloze (3): JXUwMDAw - They feed young on milk through mammary glands.

Cloze (4): JXUwMDE3 - They have gills for breathing.

Cloze (5): JXUwMDE3 - They are cold blooded.

Cloze (6): JXUwMDAw - They are warm blooded.

Fish

Cloze (7): JXUwMDE3 - They have fur or hair.

Cloze (8): JXUwMDAw - They have scales on their body.

Cloze (9): JXUwMDAw - They have gills for breathing.

Cloze (10): JXUwMDE3 - They feed young on milk.

Cloze (11): JXUwMDAw - They are cold blooded.

Cloze (12): JXUwMDE3 - They are warm blooded.

Birds

Cloze (13): JXUwMDAw - They have feathers and wings

Cloze (14): JXUwMDE3 - They have scales

Cloze (15): JXUwMDE3 - They have gills for breathing.

Cloze (16): JXUwMDAw - They have beaks and lay eggs.

Cloze (17): JXUwMDE3 - They are cold blooded.

Cloze (18): JXUwMDAw - They are warm blooded.

Reptiles

Cloze (19): JXUwMDAw - They have dry, scaly skin.

Cloze (20): JXUwMDE3 - They have feathers.

Cloze (21): JXUwMDAw - They lay eggs on dry land.

Cloze (22): JXUwMDE3 - They have beaks and gills.

Cloze (23): JXUwMDAw - They are cold blooded.

Cloze (24): JXUwMDE3 - They are warm blooded.

Amphibians

Cloze (25): JXUwMDE3 - They have fur or hair.

Cloze (26): JXUwMDAw - They have moist slimy skin.

Cloze (27): JXUwMDAw - They lay eggs on water.

Cloze (28): JXUwMDE3 - They lay eggs on dry land.

Cloze (29): JXUwMDAw - They are cold blooded.

Cloze (30): JXUwMDE3 - They are warm blooded.

Activity 2

Now that you have chosen all the right characteristics write a short text with them for each group in your notebook.

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5. Listen and write the word/s.

Cloze (1):	Cloze (2):	Cloze (3):	Cloze (4):

Cloze (5): JXUwMDFiJXUwMDJjJXUwMDAzJXUwMDA4 Cloze (6):	Cloze (7): JXUwMDBmJXUwMDM2JXUwMDEzJXUwMDFm Cloze (8):	Cloze (9):	Cloze (10):

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Invertebrates

INVERTEBRATES: There are six types of invertebrates:
Sponge. Icelight. Flickr. (Pixabay licence) SPONGES: They are primitive animals with a soft porous body supported by a framework of fibres or calcareous or glassy spicule.	Anemone. Bernard Spragg. NZ . Flickr (Public Domain) CNIDARIANS: They are animals with intracellular stinging capsules known as cnidae. They also show a variety and symmetry of body forms ans varied colours. They live on water and are really common in tropical waters. Corals, hydras, jellyfish and sea anemones are examples of cnidarians.	Caterpillar. FsHH. Pixabay. (Pixabay licence) WORMS: They are animals with tube-shaped bodies, a distinct head and no limbs. They can live on land, in the water or inside other animals, for example, tapeworms.
Sponges Calcareous Spicule	Cnidarians Hydra Anemone	Worms Tube-shaped Limbs
Clam. Nicoleleec. Flickr (CC BY) MOLLUSCS: They are animals with a soft segmented body. Most of them have a calcareous shell. They live in aquatic habitats. Snails, mussels and octopusses are examples of molluscs.	Sea cucumber. Ed Bierman. Flickr (CC BY) ECHINODERMS: The are radially symmetrical animals with a calcareous endoskeleton and a water vascular system. Starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumber are examples of echinoderms.	Spider. Paulo Pocas . Flickr. (CC-BY-NC) ARTHROPODS: They are animals with an exoskeleton, a segmented body and jointed appendages. The following are arthropods: insects (ants, dragonflies, beetles, etc.), arachnids (spiders, scorpions, ticks, etc.), crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, shrimps, etc.) and myriapods (centipedes, etc.)
Molluscs Shell Mussels	Echinoderms Endoskeleton Sea urchin	Arthropods Exoskeleton Appendages

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Extra activity

1. Watch this photo about the frog life cycle. After observing the different phases, could you tell them aloud?	2. It is time to learn while playing. Here and here you have two games where you can practice what you have studied.
Frog life cycle. Siyavula Education. Flickr (CC BY)	3. Have a look at this image with the parts of a fish. Learn them. Then make a list with the most common fish in your area. Search photographs on the Internet and see if you can identify their different parts. Fish body parts. Siyavula Education. Flickr (CC BY)
4. BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE is a system used by scientists to name plants and animals by means of two names. The first one corresponds to the genus and the second to the species. The first one is written in capital letters and the second in small letters. The entire two-part name must be written in italics. Examples may be Quercus robur, which is an oak tree or Homo sapiens, which represents human beings. Find at least ten species which are in danger of extinction in our country and write their binomial nomenclature.

Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey. Mary-Lynn. Flickr . (CC-BY) Dian Fossey (1936 California - 1985 Rwanda) was a zoologist and a conservationist. At a young age, Dian showed an affinity for animals and started veterinary studies at the University of California but soon she changed to occupational therapy and ended up working at a hospital. However, her interest in travelling led her to visit Kenya, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Congo in 1963. There she met some famous scientists and photographers who helped her get in touch with gorillas. She immediately decided to learn more about these animals. In 1967 she founded the Kaysole Reseach Centre in Rwanda to try to protect gorillas from poachers and cattle herders. She also travelled several times between Africa and Cambridge University, from where she obtained her PhD in zoology in 1974. Apart from her researches, she also wrote her autobiography book Gorillas in the mist, which was adapted for a film in 1988. Unfortunately she was murdered suppodsely by poachers in 1985. This crime remains unsolved.
Read the text and mark with an X the right option.
1. Dian Fossey was born	Cloze (1): JXUwMDAw	in the US.	Cloze (2): JXUwMDE3	in Rwanda.
2. She worked at a...	Cloze (3): JXUwMDAw	school.	Cloze (4): JXUwMDE3	hospital.
3. When she was 35, she travelled to Africa.	Cloze (5): JXUwMDE3	True	Cloze (6): JXUwMDAw	False
4. To contact gorillas she first...	Cloze (7): JXUwMDE3	did it alone.	Cloze (8): JXUwMDAw	received help.
5. Some famous photographers founded the Kaysole Reseach Centre.	Cloze (9): JXUwMDE3	True	Cloze (10): JXUwMDAw	False
6. A threat for gorillas were...	Cloze (11): JXUwMDE3	only poachers.	Cloze (12): JXUwMDAw	poachers and cattle herders.
7. Her autobiography became...	Cloze (13): JXUwMDAw	a film	Cloze (14): JXUwMDE3	a series

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Projects

PROJECT 1 Search the school, or your garden, etc. to find invertebrates. Take a photo of them and make a fact sheet for each of them. Then create a slideshow with the photos so that you can show the rest of the class. PROJECT 2 Are there any species in danger of extinction in your country / area? Make a poster with all of them. What actions are being held to protect them?	PROJECT 3
	Watch this video about the dissection of a trout to see its internals parts. Then do the same at the laboratory with a typical fish from your area. Dissection of a trout. Patrick Cross. YouTube. (YouTube Standard Licence)

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3. Listen and mark with an X the word that corresponds to the sound.
	Cloze (1): JXUwMDE3	a. Invertebrate	Cloze (2): JXUwMDAw	b. Vertebrate	Cloze (3): JXUwMDE3	c. Gills
	Cloze (4): JXUwMDAw	a. Feathers	Cloze (5): JXUwMDE3	b. Beak	Cloze (6): JXUwMDE3	c. Scales
	Cloze (7): JXUwMDE3	a. Warm blooded	Cloze (8): JXUwMDAw	b. Cold blooded	Cloze (9): JXUwMDE3	c. Vertebrate
	Cloze (10): JXUwMDE3	a. Moist slimy skin	Cloze (11): JXUwMDE3	b. Dry, scaly skin	Cloze (12): JXUwMDAw	c. Warm blooded

6. Complete the words with the missing letters.
SP Cloze (1): JXUwMDE3JXUwMDAx GES	Cloze (2): JXUwMDE1JXUwMDAyJXUwMDAz LUSCS	Cloze (3): JXUwMDFiJXUwMDBkJXUwMDA3 DARIANS	Cloze (4): JXUwMDFkJXUwMDA2JXUwMDBiJXUwMDAx NODERMS
MUSS Cloze (5): JXUwMDFkJXUwMDA5 S	LOBST Cloze (6): JXUwMDFkJXUwMDE3	SEA URC Cloze (7): JXUwMDEwJXUwMDAxJXUwMDA3	Cloze (8): JXUwMDFiJXUwMDAyJXUwMDBkJXUwMDBm AREOUS	ARTHRO Cloze (9): JXUwMDA4JXUwMDFmJXUwMDBiJXUwMDE3
EXOSK Cloze (10): JXUwMDFkJXUwMDA5JXUwMDA5JXUwMDEx ON		A Cloze (11): JXUwMDE2JXUwMDBiJXUwMDA4 ONE	M Cloze (12): JXUwMDAxJXUwMDBiJXUwMDFi APODS	CR Cloze (13): JXUwMDBkJXUwMDA2JXUwMDA3 ACEANS

7. Listen and mark with an X the animal that belongs to the category you hear.
	Cloze (1): JXUwMDAw	a. Starfish	Cloze (2): JXUwMDE3	b. Sardine	Cloze (3): JXUwMDE3	c. Shrimp
	Cloze (4): JXUwMDE3	a. Crab	Cloze (5): JXUwMDE3	b. Sea cucumber	Cloze (6): JXUwMDAw	c. Clam
	Cloze (7): JXUwMDE3	a. Squid	Cloze (8): JXUwMDE3	b. Jellyfish	Cloze (9): JXUwMDAw	c. Fly
	Cloze (10): JXUwMDE3	a. Racoon	Cloze (11): JXUwMDE3	b. Tuna	Cloze (12): JXUwMDAw	c. Sea anemone

8. Look at the photos and write vertebrate (V) or invertebrate (I).

Cloze (1): JXUwMDEx - Grasshopper	Cloze (2): JXUwMDEx - Sponge	Cloze (3): JXUwMDEx - Squid	Cloze (4): JXUwMDEx - Jellyfish

Cloze (5): JXUwMDBl - Turtle	Cloze (6): JXUwMDBl - Toad	Cloze (7): JXUwMDBl - Salamander	Cloze (8): JXUwMDEx - Starfish

Cloze (9): JXUwMDBl - Cow	Cloze (10): JXUwMDEx - Stag beetle	Cloze (11): JXUwMDBl - Sheep	Cloze (12): JXUwMDEx - Bee