Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Unit 6
- Fish
- How are they
- Have scales
- Have Fins
- Are ectothermic
- Lateral line
- Breathe through gills
- Types
- Bony fish
- Cartilaginous fish
- Vital functions
- Nutrition
- Most of them are carnivores but also they are herbivores and omnivores
- Reproduction
- Sexually
- Most of them are oviparous and lay eggs without an impermeable shell
- Amphibians
- How are they
- Very thin skin
- Four legs
- Ectothermic
- All adults exhibit cutonaeus respiration
- Types
- Anurans
- Urodeles
- Vital functions
- Nutrition
- Carnivores
- Reproduction
- Sexual
- Larvae generally become adults through a process of metamorphosis
- All of them are oviparous
- Reptiles
- How are they
- Thick skin
- Scales
- Claws
- Ectothermic
- Breathe through lungs
- Vital functions
- Nutrition
- Almost all carnivores
- A few are herbivores
- Reproduction
- Sexually
- Almost al of them are oviparous with an impermeable shell
- Main types
- Chelonians
- Crocodilians
- Squamates
- Saurians
- Ophidians
- Birds
- How are they
- Aerodynamic
- Covered with feathers
- Wings
- Bones are thin but strong and hollow
- Beak
- Breathe through lungs
- Lungs linked to air sacs
- Vital functions
- Nutrition
- Some carnivores
- Others herbivores
- Reproduction
- Sexually by laying eggs
- Their eggs have an impermeable shell
- Main types
- Carinate birds
- Ratites
- Mammals
- How are they
- Almost all have hair
- Female have mammary glands
- Their mouth has lips and different types of teeth
- They have four limbs
- Vital functions
- Nutrition
- Carnivores
- Herbivores
- Omnivores
- Reproduction
- Sexual
- A few lay eggs
- The majority are viviparous
- Main types
- Monotremes
- Marsupials
- Placentals