Animals and Animal Behavior

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic, and heterotrophs

Animals and Animal Behavior

What type of animals are in the animal kingdom?

Animals and Animal Behavior

What are the largest groups of animals found in the animal

kingdom?

Animal Characteristics

• 1. Is it unicellular or multicellular?

• 2. Is it a heterotroph or a autotroph?

• 3. Is it prokaryotic or eukaryotic?

Animal Characteristics

• 3. Is it prokaryotic or eukaryotic?

Give the definition of what nucleus characteristic animals have.

Animal Characteristics

• 2. Is it a heterotroph or a autotroph?

• Define how the animal gets it’s energy.

Animal Characteristics

• 1. Is it unicellular or multicellular?

Animal Reproduction

• How many sets of DNA are required?

• What is the percentage of inheritance from each parent?

Animal Reproduction

• Do the principles of Natural Selection apply?

• Explain.

Specialized Parts

• Animals are large in number and have simple and sophisticated features. The animals in the kingdom range from the smallest and simplest to the largest and most complex. Each different group of animals comes with features that give it a nervous system, a digestive system, an excretion system, and physical characteristics.

• What are the specialized parts in animals?

How do animals move?

• What are the different structures that animals can use to move?

• How are these used?

How do animals move?

• How are these used?

Relationships between animals

• Animals live together in a biome and have interesting relationships with each other. Animals become involved in very interesting and important ways. Some help, some harm.

• What are the relationships that exist between animals in the animal kingdom?

Animal Behavior

• How can animals protect themselves?

Learning

• Some animals live with parents, some are simply born and are left to live alone. How is it that these animals survive?

• What are two different ways that animals can learn?

Parent and group learning

• These are important to the animal young, why?

Surviving

• If left alone, can the young animal survive?

• How?

• What doe sit use to survive?

Rhythms of Life

• Animals have a very unique relationship with the environment around them. The environment and the things that take place on our earth have influence upon the animals and their daily lives.

• What are the things that take place during the lifespan of an animal called?

• How do animals know when to do things during seasons of the year?

Animal Reproduction

• How do most animals reproduce?

Animals living together

• In order for some animals to survive they must live together in groups. These type of animals are called ______________ animals. However, some animals prefer to live separate from others of it’s kind except during mating season.

• Regardless, all animals have a space to call their own. What is the name of that space?

Forms of communication

• All animals communicate one way or another. Not all animals have speech like humans but they have their own “language” nonetheless.

• What are some forms of communication that animals use? Name and describe them.

Benefits of living in groups

• What are the benefits of living in groups?

Disadvantages to living in groups

• What are the disadvantages to living in groups?