The starfish is an example of Phylum Annelida.
Important Questions on Biodiversity and its Classification
| Features of vertebrate animals | Types of vertebrates |
| 1. Live in water, has a scale on the body, uses fin to swim, breathe through gills. | 1. Fish |
| 2. Lives in water during larval conditions, swims by moving its tail when an adult jumps around in the nearby land. | |
| 3. Lays egg on the land, grow up on the land, and moves by sliding on its chest. | |
| 4. Feathers cover its body, can fly on wings, lays eggs, young ones hatch out of eggs. | |
| 5. Doesn't lay eggs, give birth to young ones. | |
| 6. Feeds its milk to the young ones. |
Identify the correct statement and rewrite the wrong statement to make them correct.
The animals that do not have a spinal cord are called invertebrates.
Write one difference each between the following pairs:
Arthropoda and Mollusca
Make a list of different vertebrate and invertebrate animals that you have seen in the aquatic ecosystem.
| Invertebrates | Vertebrates |
| Prawn | Fish |
What is the difference?
Vertebrates– invertebrates.
Fill up the blank with the suitable organisms given the picture.
Name the invertebrates with wings _____.
Give two examples for the following:
Segmented worms
Based on the characteristics write the examples of animals
Invertebrate.
Based on the characteristics write the examples of animals
Vertebrate, aquatic, egg-laying animals.
Write one difference each between the following pairs:
Invertebrates and Vertebrates
Identify the correct statement and rewrite the wrong statement to make them correct.
The snake is an invertebrate animal.
Categorise the following animals under their appropriate columns of classification:
ANIMALS:
Dog, Grasshopper, Rat, Scorpion, Toad, Butterfly, Lizard, Turtle, Frog, Bat, Snail, Honey bee, Pigeon, Liver fluke, Leech, Cattle, Snake, Rohu, Parrot, Ascaris, Earthworm, Cow, Rabbit, Monkey, Elephant.
CLASSIFICATION:
| WORMS | MOLLUSCS | FISHES | AMPHIBIANS | REPTILES | BIRDS | MAMMALS |
Give two examples for the following:
Arthropods
Based on the characteristics write the examples of animals
Vertebrate, terrestrial, egg-laying animal.
