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Movement, reproduction, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, respiration, growth

7 characteristics of living things

Reproduction

Ability to produce offspring to prevent extinction

Sensitivity

Responding and reacting to the environment

Excretion

Getting rid of waste

Respiration

Converting food to energy

Growth

Becoming larget snd stronger; becoming adult size

Taxonomy

Science of identifying, naming, and classifying

Classifying

Act of placing objects into groups based on their characteristics

Vertebrates

Animals with backbones

Fish

Cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates with scales and gills

Amphibian

Cold-blooded vertebrates that can live on both land and water and breathe through their skin and lungs

Reptile

Cold-blooded vertebrates that have dry skin and hard scales or shells and are more adapted to living on land than water (though they can live in both)

Birds

Warm-blooded vertebrates that have wings, feathers, and hollow bones to help most of them fly

Mammals

Warm-blooded vertebrates with hair or fur and mammary glands to feed their young

Ectotherms

Cold-blooded animals

Endotherms

Warm-blooded animals

Placental mammals

Their young develop inside uterus and are born alive

Monotremes

Egg-laying mammals

Marsupials

Keep their young in pouches as they develop and grow

Poriferans

Simple, sessile, filter-feeder invertebrates that have pores all over their bodies and are AKA sponges

Sessile

Immobile

Cnidarians

Invertebrates with nematocysts and tentacles around the mouth to help capture their food and were formerly known as coelenterates

Invertebrates

Animals without backbones

Nematocysts

Stinging cells

Platyhelminthes

Invertebrates with flat, ribbonlike bodies and are AKA flatworms

Nematodes

Parasitic invertebrates with long, smooth rounded bodies and are AKA roundworms

Annelids

Invertebrates with long, segmented bodies and are AKA segmented worms

Mollusc

(Usually) shelled and aquatic invertebrates with a muscular foot or tentacles

Echinoderms

Spiny-skinned aquatic invertebrates

Arthropods

Invertebrates with hard exoskeletons, jointed legs, segmented body, and compound eyes

Exoskeleton

Arthropods' hard outer body

Crustaceans

Mostly marine arthropods with two pairs of antennae and swimmerets

Arachnids

Arthropods wirh four pairs of legs

Myriapods

Centipedes and millipedes

Insects

Arthropods with three pairs of legs and three body regions

Parasitic

Living in the body of their host

Locomotion

Movement

Spicules

Made up of hard minerals and provides the sponge with strength and protection

Hermaphroditic

Has both male and female gametes and therefore able to reproduce on its own

Class Agnatha
jawless fishes with sharp teeth
Class Chondrichthyes
cartilaginous fish
Class Osteichythes
bony fish