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Animals and plants

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To sort animals and plants into different groups based on characteristics that they share

Classification

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Give birth to live babies, have fur or hair, warm-blooded

mammals

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lay eggs, have feathers, are warm-blooded

birds

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cold-blooded, lay eggs, covered in scales

reptiles

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cold-blooded, lay eggs, breathe with gills

fish

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cold-blooded, live in water when small, breathe with lungs when they are adults

amphibians

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"higher plants," carry water from their tubes through leaves through their stems

vascular

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"lower plants," soak water straight from the ground. These plants do not have stems.

non-vascular

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A part of a plant cell that falls off the plant and onto the ground. It then grows into a new plant.

spores

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animals with a backbone

vertebrate

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animals without a backbone

invertebrate

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Plants that reproduce through these can be flowering or non-flowering

seeds

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Plants that protect their seeds in a fruit or a flower

angiosperm

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Plants that protect their seeds in cones

gymnosperms

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Why do scientists classify living organisms?

To study ways those living organisms are similar and different.

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Examples of invertebrates

insects, spiders, crabs

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