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Topic: Ch. 1- Classifying Plants
and Animals
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Notes:
Cell
Smallest unit of a living thing
Nucleus
Controls the cell’s activities
Cytoplasm
Gel-like liquid inside cell membrane that contains the things cells need
Chloroplast
Special parts in plant cells that trap the sun’s energy
Genus
A group of closely related living things and the first part of an organism’s
name
A group of similar organisms that can mate and produce offspring that can
also produce offspring. It is the second part of the scientific name.
Animals that have backbones (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals)
Species
Vertebrates
invertebrates
Lesson 1: What are the building
blocks of life?
How are plant and animal cells
similar?
Tissue
Animals that do not have a backbone (jellyfish, worms, insects, spiders,
lobsters)
- They can carry out the basic processes of life.
Cells can:
o Get and use energy
o Grow and develop
o Get rid of waste
o Reproduce
o React to the environment
- Both have a cell membrane and a nucleus
A group of one type of cell. Each tissue does a certain job.
Microscope
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Lesson 2: How are living things
grouped?
Fungi
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Animal kingdom order
What is the second part of an
organism’s scientific name?
Lesson 3: How are plants
classified?
Vascular plants vs. nonvascular
How do pine trees reproduce?
Use to study the small details of a cell
Kingdom that lives on land and absorbs its food from other
living and nonliving things
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
(King Philip Came Over From Germany Saturday)
(Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach)
Species
Vascular (with tubes{stems, roots}): grass, fern, dandelion, celery, trees
Nonvascular (without tubes): moss, hornworts, liverworts
- They make seeds but do not have flowers
Lesson 4: How are animals
classified?
arthropod
Burmese python vs. garden snail
Spider, bee, ants, grasshopper, lobster (segmented bodies)
BOTH: mate and lay eggs, when eggs hatch both species are on their own
SNAIL: leaves its eggs
PYTHON: stays until eggs hatch, lives much longer
Lesson 5: How do animals
adapt?
Inherited traits of animals
Color of hair or fur
Learned behavior from parents
How to hunt for food
Adaptation
Why/ how do a Canadian geese
migrate?
Instincts
Questions/Main Ideas:
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A body structure or behavior that helps an animal obtain food,
protect itself (camouflage), move, or reproduce
They migrate b/c they have an instinct to migrate and it helps them survive.
- In winter, geese migrate to a warmer place where there is more
food and then they return north in the spring.
Behaviors that are inherited, (born knowing the behavior)
- ducklings following their mother
- migration
- hibernation
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