Directions: Give 10 examples of animals and write if they are vertebrates or invertebrates and give 2 examples of their important traits.
- Cat (Vertebrate) - They have a backbone and they are a mammal.
- Dog (Vertebrate) - They have a backbone and they are a mammal.
- Insects (Invertebrate) - They do not have a backbone and they are multicellular.
- Earthworms (Invertebrate) - They have no cell walls, like all other animals and they reproduce by two reproductive cells, or gametes, coming together to produce a new organism of their species.
- Squids (Invertebrate) - They do not have a backbone and they live under the sea.
- Horses (Vertebrates) - They have a backbone and they have a unique traits.
- Crocodiles (Vertebrates) - They belong to the phylum chordata under the class of reptiles.
- Pigeons (Vertebrates) - They have a backbone and they belong under the class of birds.
- Frogs (Vertebrates) - A cold-blooded vertebrate animal and they are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage.
- Leaches (Invertebrate) - No cell walls, and reproduce by two reproductive cells.
