VERTEBRATES

VERTEBRATES

1. BIRDS

   • NUTRITION
     • Birds can be carnivores, herbivores or omnivores.
       • Carnivore birds: They eat other animals.
         • -Eagle, Owl, Penguin...
       • Herbivore birds: They eat plants and seeds.
         • Parrot, Swan, Parakeet...
       • Omnivore birds: They eat plants, seeds and other animals
         • Crow, Hen, Duck, Ostrich
     • Adult birds find food for their babies until they can find their own food.
   • RESPIRATION
     • -They breathe with their lung. -They get oxygen from the air.
   • REPRODUCTION
     • Bird are oviparous. All lay eggs
     • They incubate their eggs in a nest.
     • Their eggs are hard.
   • LIVE
     • Some of them live on land.
       • Hen, Rooster...
     • Some of them can live in both land and water, They have webbed feet, for moving in water.
       • Duck, Penguin...
   • OTHERS CHARACTERISTICS
     • Their bodies are covered by feathers.
     • All birds have wings
       • Most of them can fly: Eagle...
       • Some of them can't fly: Penguin...
       • Some of them can swim: Duck...
       • Some of them can run: Ostrich, Emu...
     • All birds have beak and claws
     • They have light squeleto. This hepls them to fly.
     • Cold-blooded
       • Body tenperature depends on whether its cold or hot outside.
     • Birds migrate: more food, to get away from predators...

2. REPTILES

   • NUTRITION
     • Most are carnivores.
       • Snake, crocodile, lizard...
     • Some are omnivores: they eat plants, and small animal
       • Tortoise...
     • Some reptiles have a sticky tongue to help catch prey.
       • Iguana...
   • REPRODUCTION
     • Reptiles are viviparous. They lay their eggs on land
     • In most cases, the eggs are not protected by the parents.
       • Some of them look aftert their babies after they hatch.
         • Crocodile...
     • Most reptiles reproduce by internal fertilization.
     • Most reptiles lay their eggs under rocks and grasses.
     • The eggs have leathery shells.
     • The eggs did not dry out.
   • RESPIRATION
     • They breathe with their lungs.
     • They get oxygen from the air.
   • LIVE
     • Most reptiles live on land.
     • Some reptiles live temporarily or permanent in the water.
       • Tortoise...
   • OTHERS CHARACTERISTICS
     • They have ears holes instead of ears.
     • They have their bodies covered with scales.
       • They have dry skin.
     • They have two pairs of legs except snakes.
       • They slither.
     • They are cold-blooded, they aren't found in very cold regions.
     • They can move in many different ways.
       • marine turtles swin and lizard walk
     • The body es divided in: head, trunk, limbs and tail.
     • Usually They slider

3. AMPHIBIAN

   • RESPIRATION
     • Amphibians breathe with gills when are small, and with lungs when they are adults.
   • REPRODUCTION
     • They are oviparous.
     • They lay eggs in water.
     • They reproduce by external fertilisation.
   • NUTRITION
     • Most amphibians are carnivores.
       • They feed on insects and invertebrates.
       • The tongue is used to capture prey.
       • salamanders, toads, caecilians...
   • LIVE
     • They live on land and in water
     • If their skin dries out, they die.
     • They have smooth,wet skin.
   • OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
     • They are cold-blooded
       • Body temperature depends on whether its cold or hot outside.
     • They have weebbed feet that help to swin in water.
     • The body es divided in: head, trunk and limbs.
       • Some don't have tail: frog
       • Others do have tail: salamander

4. FISH

   • RESPIRATION
     • They breath with gills.
       • They get oxygen from the water.
   • REPRODUCTION
     • They are oviparous.
       • They reproduce by external fertisation.
         • They lay many eggs.
   • LIVE
     • They live in the water.
       • Sweet water
         • pike...
       • Saltwater
         • tuna, hake, shark...
   • NUTRITION
     • They can be are carnivores, omnivores or herbivores
   • OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
     • They come in many sizes and shapes.
     • The body is covered with scales.
     • They have fins to swin.
     • They are cold-blooded.

5. MAMMALS

   • RESPIRATION
     • Mammals breathe with their lungs.
       • They get oxygen from the air,
   • REPRODUCTION
     • They are viviparous.
       • Lion, bear, sheep, human...
     • All mammals are born directly from their mother.
   • NUTRITION
     • Some of them are carnivores
       • Tiger, rat, leopard, bat...
     • Some of them are omnivores
       • Humans, monkey...
     • Some of them are herbivores
       • Kangaroo, koala, cow, horse...
     • Mammals feed milk to their babies.
   • LIVE
     • Some live in water.
       • Seal, whale, dolphin...
     • Some live on the land.
       • Deer, dog, cat...
   • OTHERS CHARACTERISTICS
     • The hair keeps the animals warm.
     • Their young grows inside the mother.
     • They are warm blooded.
     • Only the bat have wings.
     • They have hair or fur.
     • All mammals have a head, a trunk and limbs.

6. All vertebrate animals have a backbone.