Unit 4: It’s ALIVE! Animals and Basic Needs

ECOSYSTEMS

Basic NeedsWater

Food

Shelter

EndothermicVs.

Exothermic

What are feathers

for?

Feathers? No way!

Vertebrate or invertebrate?

Vertebrate!

Vertebrate Invertebrate

?Fish WhalesPrimatesEchinoderms (Starfish?)WormsCrustaceans

Time to hibernate!

Where do I

belong?

Kingdom

Phylum

Class

Order

Family

Genus

Species

Classification

Kingdom:Animalia

Class: Mammalia

Order: Primate

Genus: Gorilla

Food Chain

CarnivoreYUM!Herbivore

So many choice

s!

Omnivore

Longing to Know and

Understand

Questioning of Scientific

Assumptions

Respect for Historical

Contributions

• We must find information and seek explanations

• We must look for further support for any ideas we come across

• We should try to understand and learn from contributions of earlier ideas, studies, and events.

References:

Animal Photos. Retrieved November 8, 2010 from:

www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/animal.html.

Grobe, H. (AVI). 2007. Sydkapp in Scoresby Sun, East Greenland. Retrieve November 8, 2010 from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greenland_scoresb y-sydkapp2_hg.jpg.

Silver Burdett Ginn Science: Discovery Works. (1999). Unit C: Animals (2nd ed.). Parsippany, NY: Badders, W., Bethel, L., Peck, D., Fu, V., Sumners, C., Valentino, C., Mullane, R.M..

[untitled food chain]. Retrieved November 19, 2010 from: http://bookbuilder.cast.org/bookresources/14962/539 17_1.gif.

[untitled marine food chain]. Retrieved November 19, 2010 from: http://www.beyondbiology.org/beyondbiology.org

/images/stories/fruit/foodchain.jpg.