Difference between revisions of "Taxonomy"

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Key Stage 2

Meaning

Grouping living things is done to make it easier to identify different creatures.

About Grouping Living Things

Living things can be grouped in different ways.

Scientists usually group things by common features or common behaviour.

Examples

Vertebrates and Invertebrates

A vertebrate is an animal with a backbone.

An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone.

All of these animals have a backbone so they examples of vertebrates.

Amphibians are vertebrates.	Birds are vertebrates.	Fish are vertebrates.	Mammals are vertebrates.	Reptiles are vertebrates.

None of these animals have a backbone so they are examples of invertebrates.

Snails are invertebrates.	Earthworms are invertebrates.	Scorpions are invertebrates.	Octopuses are invertebrates.	Flies are invertebrates.

Flowering Plants and other Plants

A Flowering Plant is a plant that grows flowers.

Not all plants grow flowers. There are also Mosses, Ferns and Conifers which don't grow flowers.

There are 4 main groups of plants.
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Flowering Plants.	Coniferous plants.	Mosses	Ferns

@@ Line 21: / Line 21: @@
 |[[File:Adder.png|center|200px]]
 |-
-| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |A newt is an amphibian.
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Amphibians are vertebrates.
-| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |A puffin is a bird.
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Birds are vertebrates.
-| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |A trout is a fish.
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Fish are vertebrates.
-| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |A fox is a mammal.
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Mammals are vertebrates.
-| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |An adder is a reptile.
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Reptiles are vertebrates.
 |}
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 |[[File:Fly.png|center|200px]]
 |-
-| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Snail
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Snails are invertebrates.
-| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Earthworm
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Earthworms are invertebrates.
-| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Scorpion
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Scorpions are invertebrates.
-| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Octopus
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Octopuses are invertebrates.
-| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Fly
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Flies are invertebrates.
 |}
-Invertebrates:
+====Flowering Plants and other Plants====
-Snail, Worm, Octopus, Insect, Arachnid
+: A [[Flowering Plant]] is a [[plant]] that grows [[Flower|flowers]].
+: Not all [[Plant|plants]] grow [[Flower|flowers]]. There are also [[Moss|Mosses]], [[Fern|Ferns]] and [[Conifer|Conifers]] which don't grow flowers.
-Vertebrates
+{| class="wikitable"
-Reptile, Mammal, Bird, Fish, Amphibian.
+|+ There are 4 main groups of plants.
+|[[File:AppleTree.png|center|200px]]
+|[[File:Confier.png|center|200px]]
+|[[File:Moss.png|center|200px]]
+|[[File:Fern.png|center|200px]]
+|-
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |[[Flowering Plants]].
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Coniferous plants.
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Mosses
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Ferns
+|}