Basic Animal Groups

I.

Birds
Defining Characteristics:
1) Feathers
2) Lightweight Bones
3) Four-chambered heart

II.

Amphibians
Defining Characteristics:
1) Aquatic Larvae
2) Vertebrates
3) First to make move from life in water to life on land

III. Reptiles
Defining Characteristics:
1) Cold-Blooded
2) Scales
3) Amniotic Eggs
IV. Fishes
Defining Characteristics:
1) breathe through gills
2) no limbs

3) first animals to evolve jaws

V.

Invertebrates
Defining Characteristics:
1) No backbone
2) Evolved from single-celled microorganisms
3) 97% of living organisms

VI. Mammals
Defining Characteristics:
1) Hair
2) Diaphragm
3) Four-chambered heart