New words from animal kingdom reading
Monday’s reading
Organism - a living thing 
Vertebrate - has a spine 
Invertebrate - has no spine  
Taxonomy - a way to group things 
Diverse - a big range  
Amphibians -  
Heterotrophic - means they must find and eat food 
Primates (apes, monkeys) 
Rodents (rats, squirrels) 
Cetaceans (dolphins, whales) 
Marsupials (kangaroos, koalas) 
Monotremes (egg laying mammals like the platypus) 
Autotrophic - make their own food by photosynthesis 
Photosynthesis - how plants make their own food 
Vascular - uses roots to absorb water 
Nonvascular - uses the whole plant to absorb water 
Decompose, decomposition - to break down 
Non-flowering - no flowers  
Thermophiles - (root word is thermo which is about temperature)  
Big ideas from the reading  
All living things are called organisms.  
They are organised into 6 groups called kingdoms. Each group has certain characteristics that each organism must have.  
Animals 
Can move on their own 
Are heterotrophic (can’t make their own food) 
Must eat to survive 
Vertebrates and invertebrates  
Plants  
They are Autotrophic (they make their own food) 
Some are vascular and nonvascular.  
If a plant has seeds or fruit, it is a flowering plant. 
Eubacteria 
Are made up of just one cell. They are everywhere. Some bacteria are good and some are bad. 
Bacteria called decomposers break down dead plants and anacteria. 
Archaebacteria 
Can survive where no other organism can live. 
Thermophiles, methanogens and halophiles 
Fungi  
Say it fun guy 
Mushrooms are a fungi 
They are heterotrophic (can’a make their own food) 
Use enzymes to break down food 
Protista 
Are related to either plants, animals or fungi (one of them, not related to all of them at the same time)