8. Classifications – Putting Animals into different groups Great White Shark Human Being 2 Spotted Lady Beetle Kingdom : Animalia Kingdom: Animalia Kingdom : Animalia Phylum : Chordata Phylum: Chordata Phylum : Arthropoda Class : Chondrichthyes Class: Mammalia Class : Insecta Order : Lamniformes Order: Primates Order : Coleoptera Family : Lamnidae Family: Hominidae Family : Coccinellidae Genus : Carcharodon Genus: Homo Genus : Adalia Species : carcharias Species: sapiens Species : bipunctata
17. Example: Wetland food chain The arrows in a food chain or food web point in the direction of energy flow.
18. The broadest food chain is as follows: Sun - The sun is the driving force of a food chain. It is the source of all life. Without the sun (and water) there would be no life.
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24. Food Web – Transfer of Energy The tissues of all plants and animals are a store of energy which is available to other organisms in a food web. When an animal eats another one it obtains the energy available in that organism.
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Common Name: Humans Scientific Name: Homo sapiens Kingdom : Animalia We are, after all, animals and not plants. Plants have their own Kingdom name. Phylum : Chordata This refers to our back-bone, as opposed to animals that have no back bones, such as insects. Class : Mammalia We are warm-blooded, or mammals, and not frogs, which are members of the Class Amphibia. Order : Primates We are, essentially, apes (much like gorillas). All apes are primates. Family : Hominidae We are apes that walk upright (unlike gorillas). Genus : Homo Species : sapiens