Unit: Survey of Life: Kingdom Animalia
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 defining characteristics that all animals share in common. (What
is an animal?)
2. Identify and
describe how animals perform the following life processes:
-Obtain their energy
-Respiration
-Movement
-Eliminate waste products
-Response
-Reproduction:
3. Describe how animals
are classified.
4. Make a Venn diagram that compares radial and bilateral symmetry.
5. Answer questions 1-16 pages 35-36
6. Describe two internal structures or systems in mollusks that are also found in mammals.
7. Answer questions 1-2 page 45
8. Describe 3 major characteristics that all Arthropods share in common.
8. Which group of arthropods is the most successful and give 2 pieces of evidence to support your conclusion.
9. Answer questions
1-3 page 59
10. Answer questions
1-2 page 73
11. Compare and contrast Echinoderms and Mollusks. Which group do you believe is the most complex and why? (I suggest comparing sensory, nervous, and circulatory systems; as well as locomotion)
12. Identify and describe the major characteristics that all vertebrates share in common
13. Compare and contrast Jawless, Cartilaginous, and Bony fish.
14. Why are amphibians transitional land animals? How come they are not true land animals?
15. Answer questions
1-2 pages 98
16. What “biological invention or structure” allowed reptiles to become true land animals?
17. Answer questions 1-2 pages 106
18. Compare and contrast ectotherms and endotherms.
19. Provide 2 reasons why Birds and Mammals are called the higher vertebrates.
20. List and describe 3 adaptations that birds have that enable them to fly.
21. Mammals are divided into 3 major groups: Monotremes, Marsupials, and Placental mammals. What criteria is used for this division?
22. 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
1. Draw and label a classification chart of the major animal groups.
2. Look at slides of sponges and cnidarians. Draw and label the medusa and polyp stage found in Cnidarians.
3. Look at slides of flatworms, roundworms, and segmented worms. Sketch a flat and round worm. Describe why segmented worms are more advanced.
4. Diagram the general life cycle of parasitic worm (tapeworm or a fluke).
5 Observe slides in mollusk anatomy (structures)
6. Observe slides in arthropod anatomy (structures)
7. Online activities to be developed by the Instructor.
Internet Resources:
Animals: