WEEK 11-DAY 6

SCIENCE 5
CLASSIFICATION
OF LIFE ANIMAL
KINGDOM
CLASSIFICATION
• A way of organizing things
in a group according to
similar characteristics
CLASSIFICATION
• Animal classification
helps us to identify and
name all animals on Earth
 TAXONOMY
o Branch of biology that
deals with naming and
classifying of living thing
CAROLUS LINNAEUS
o Swedish biologist
o Father of Taxonomy
o Named and classified living
things
CAROLUS LINNAEUS
o Developed a system to
categorize and identify
animals according to their
common traits
ANIMAL KINGDOM
• One of the
largest kingdoms
ANIMALS
• Completely multicellular
• Do not make their own
food
ANIMALS
• Capable of moving
from place to place
DYK?
• There are millions of
animal species on
Earth!
DYK?
• Estimated animal on
our planet ranges from
3 to 30 million species
K Kingdom - King
P Phylum - Philip
C Class - Came
O Order - Over
F Family - For
G Genus - Good
S Species - Spaghetti
 Organism that able to move their own

Animals with a backbone

Chordates with fur or hair and milk glands

Mammals with collar bones and grasping fingers

Primates with relatively flat faces

Hominid with upright posture and large brains

High forehead and thin skull bones

TWO MAJOR GROUP

Vertebrates Invertebrates
THINK N’ SHARE
Q: Why do scientists use only
the genus and species names
to identify an organism and
not all of the classification
groups?
COMPARE & CONTRAST
Q: What is the broadest
classification group? What
is the specific group?