Classification of living things

Protista

Fungi

Monera

Plant

Animal

Five kingdoms

LIVING THINGS

Feed on other living things

kingdom

kingdom

kingdom

kingdom

Not visible to the eye

Monera

Protozoa

Algae

Protista

Examples: mushrooms, moulds and yeast

Cannot move about

Fungi

Examples: trees and herbaceous plants

Make own food

Cannot move about

Plant

Examples: humans and elephants

Feed on other living things

Can move about

kingdom

Animal

THE FIVE KINGDOMS

Groups

Annelids

Arthropods

Echinoderms

Porifera

Coelenterates

Molluscs

They don't have a spinal column

Invertebrates

Mammals

Amphibians

Reptiles

Birds

Fish

Groups

They have a spinal column and a skeleton

Vertebrates

Animal Kingdom

VERTEBRATES: Mammals

young

they produce milk to feed their

female mammals give birth

Viviparous

Reproduction

Aquatic: fins

tail

Terrestrial: four legs and

Extremities

(fur)

Covered with skin or hair

Body

lungs

They breathe through

Respiration

VERTEBRATES: Reptiles

eggs

Their young are born from

Oviparous

Reproduction

Some don’t have legs

Some have four legs

Extremities

Some have a hard shell

scales

Covered with hard

Body

lungs

They breathe through

Respiration

VERTEBRATES: Fish

eggs

Their young are born from

Oviparous

Reproduction

They have fins and tail

Extremities

Covered with scales

Body

They breathe with gills

Respiration

VERTEBRATES: Birds

They lay eggs

Oviparous

Reproduction

Two wings

Two legs

Extremities

easy to fly

Thin and light bones:

Aerodynamic

Body

They have lungs

Respiration

VERTEBRATES: Amphibians

Oviparous

Reproduction

Four legs and a tail

Extremities

Thin and smooth skin

Body

breathe air on land

When they’re adults: lungs to

breathe in water

When they’re young: gills to

Respiration

Ex: Sponges

a bud

Reproduction by growing

through the pores

They absorb oxygen

pores

Soft body with holes:

PORIFERA

Ex: jellyfish

a bud (small body part)

Reproduction by growing

their skin

Absorb oxygen through

Some have long tentacles

Soft body

COELENTERATES

oysters

Ex: mussels, snails,

Oviparous

They breathe through gills

Some have a hard shell

Soft body

MOLLUSCS

INVERTEBRATES

ANNELIDS

ARTHROPODS

ECHINODERMS

•Long, soft body divided into rings (segments) •Some have gills, others breathe through skin •Reproduction by budding, some oviparous •Ex: worms and leeches

•They have an exoskeleton and jointed legs that bend •Some have lungs, others have gills •Oviparous •Ex: insect, spiders and crustaceans

•Body covered with sharp spike •Some have arms and tentacles •Some have gills, others absorb oxygen through skin •Oviparous •Ex: starfish

INVERTEBRATES

Groups

Mosses

Ferns

they produce special cells called spores

Non-seed plants

Gymnosperms

Angiosperms

Groups

they reproduce by creating seeds

Seed plants

Plant Kingdom

Seed plants

Ex: pine tree

the cones.

Seeds grow inside

conifers.

cones. Also called

They produce

Gymnosperms

Ex: apple tree

the fruit.

seeds grow inside

the flowers and

Fruit grows from

flowering plants.

Also called

They grow flowers.

Angiosperms

Non-seed plants

stem and leaves.

through rhizoids,

and nutrients

They absorb water

rhizoids.

roots, they have

They don't have

capsules.

They produce

Mosses

roots.

to the ground by

They are anchored

grow on the fronds.

Spore capsules

fronds.

leaves called

They have special

Ferns

Nutrition

Reproduction

Body parts

Three groups

matter

decaying

from the

nutrients

they absorb

hyphae

network of

stem

cap

spores

(multicellular)

Mushrooms

(multicellular)

Moulds

(unicellular)

Yeast

Fungi Kingdom

Nutrition

Reproduction

Body parts

Microscopic

heterotrophs

some

autotrophs

some

matter

plant or animal

they break down

a tail

some have

Extremities:

by dividing

reproduce

They

organisms

unicellular

Very simple

Monera Kingdom

Nutrition

Reproduction

Body parts

Groups

heterotrophs

Others are

(photosynthesis)

chlorophyll

Algae have

other cilia…

pseudopods,

Some have

By dividing

Spores

Protozoa

Algae

Protista Kingdom