1)Animals can not make their own food.They depend on other living things in the environment for food.
Some eat plants, animals, or both.
2)Animals digest their food.The minerals in food must be broken down to eat and
for their body to use.
3)Animals also move place to place.Moving around helps them to find things, such as mates,
food, shelter, and moving also allows animals to escape from predators.
4)Animals are many-celled.Different cells carry out many different functions.
5)Animals are eukaryotic.This means that they each have a nucleus and organelles surrounded by membranes.
Vertebrate-an organism with a backbone.
Invertabrate-An organism without a backbone.
Bilateral-an organism that has the same shape on both sides of its body.
Radial-an organism that has body parts arranged in a circle.
1)Sponges (Porifera)
2)Cnidarian-"Stinging Cells"
3)Flatworms (Platyhelmints)
4)Roundworms (Nematoda)
5)Segmented Worms (Annelida)
6)Mollusks
7)Arthropods-"Jointed Foot"
8)Echinoderms
9)Chrondates
