Unit: Survey of Life:
Online Project: Vertebrates
Introduction: Your team will work together to answer the unit questions, complete the required activities, and pass the unit assessment.
Key Vocabulary Terms:
cell, tissue, organ, adaptation, sexual reproduction, fertilization, a sexual
reproduction, vertebrate, invertebrate, symmetry, parasite, host, scavenger,
ectotherm, endotherm,
Unit Summary
Questions (by Topic)
1. Identify and describe the major characteristics that all vertebrates share in common
2. Identify and describe how the 5 vertebrate classes
perform the following life processes:
-Obtain their energy
-Respiration
-Movement
-Eliminate waste products
-Response
-Reproduction:
3. Compare and contrast Jawless, Cartilaginous, and Bony fish.
4. Why are amphibians transitional land animals? How come they are not true land animals?
5. What
“biological invention or structure” allowed reptiles to become true land
animals?
6. Compare and contrast ectotherms and endotherms.
7. Provide 2 reasons why Birds and Mammals are called the higher vertebrates.
8. List and describe 3 adaptations that birds have that enable them to fly.
9. Mammals are divided into 3 major groups: Monotremes, Marsupials, and Placental mammals. What criteria are used for this division?
10. How are placental mammals classified into different smaller groupings called orders? What characteristics are used?
Unit Activities: (by
Topic)
View all of the
PowerPoint’s in the M:Folder/Pauly/7-8Science/8th
Science/Survey of Life/Animal Kingdom
Internet Resources:
Animals: