What is classification?
Classification is the arrangement of objects, ideas, or information into groups based on similarities.
Why might classifying things be important?
Classification makes things easier to find, indentify, and study.
Scientists use classification to help them understand the relationship between living things, and to understand the similarities between many of the thousands of living creatures on this planet.
Classification is the arrangement of objects, ideas, or information into groups based on similarities.
Why might classifying things be important?
Classification makes things easier to find, indentify, and study.
Scientists use classification to help them understand the relationship between living things, and to understand the similarities between many of the thousands of living creatures on this planet.
Animals can be classified into two main groups:
Vertebrates and Invertebrates
A vertebrate is an animal that has a spine, or backbone.
Examples of Vertebrates:
People, dogs, cats, birds, fish, snakes, and frogs...
Invertebrates are animals that do not have backbones,
such as insects like butterflies and grasshoppers, spiders, and worms.
Fun Fact!
Most of the animals on Earth are actually invertebrates!
