A.

Animals and Their Habitats

Habitat is a place where animals live. It is where their source of food is found.
It is also called as Natural Home of Animals
Types:
1. Mountains
4. Polar Regions
2. grassland
5. Oceans, Seas, Pond, Lake,
3. forest
Swamps,
a. temperate forest
6. Deserts
b. tropical forest
B. HOW ANIMALS GET & EAT THEIR FOOD
1. Animals have special body parts:
1.1 flat teeth for grinding & chewing food
ex: carabao, goat
1.2 strong, sharp teeth for tearing / cutting meat into smaller pieces
ex: lion, tiger
1.3 hands for grasping & holding food
ex: monkey
1.4 forepaws to hold the bones
1.5 paws to tear the flesh of the prey
ex: lion, cat
1.6 beak to pick up and crack seeds
ex: birds
1.7 sharp claws called talons to get food
ex: birds like eagle, hawk
1.8 fangs for biting food & giving off poison
ex: snake
1.9 baleen to capture food
ex: shark, whales
1.10 pincers for holding food
ex: crab
1.11 biting mouth parts for sucking food
ex: ant
1.12 long tubes for sucking food
ex: butterfly
1.13 sticky, long tongue to catch insects
ex: frog
Adaptation refers to animals special body structure that help them saty alive
or
survive in their environment
1. Camouflage is a kind of disguise so that blending with the environment
is
possible
Ex: grasshopper cannot be easily seen when it is on the
grass
because of its color
2. Cryptic Coloration helps animal hide from their natural enemies. It is
also
called as Protective Coloration
Ex: cameleon (in the movie, Monsters Inc); Tree Frog

3. Mimicry animal resembles other objects in their surroundings in order to

avoid
predators
Ex: walking stick
4. Chemical Defenses animals that give off or spray poison to protect
themselves
Ex: cobra, starfish
5. Armor animals that have hard shells covering their body
Ex: clams, armadillos
6. Other Strategies
6.1 hiding in a soft place
ex: worms, crickets
6.2 being active at nighttime, not daytime
ex: rabbits
6.3 escaping by flight
ex: antelopes, octopus
6.4 playing dead
ex: opossum
6.5 giving up a body part ex: lizards cutting off its tail
6.6 fighting
ex: porcupines, bees, wasps
D. CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMALS
Classification is a term used by scientists to group the animals
D.1 Classifying Animals According to What They Eat:
1. Herbivores or Plant Eating Animals these are plant-eating animals
Ex: cow, carabao, goats
2. Carnivores or Meat-eating Animals animals that eat the meat /
flesh
of other animals
Ex: lions, tiger, crocodile
3. Omnivores or Plant and Meat-eating Animals are animals the eat
both plants & animals
Ex: human, cat, birds
D.2 Classifying Animals As to the Presence of Backbones
1. Vertebrates are animals with backbones
Ex: 1.1 Fishes covered with scales
1.2 Amphibians lay eggs on water; live on both land &
water
Ex: frog
1.3 Mammals give birth to their young; dont lay eggs; has
Mammary Glands
Ex: human
1.4 Reptiles covered with scales or plates
Ex: crocodile
1.5 Birds covered with feathers
Ex: hawk
3. Invertebrates are animals without backbones

Phylum or
Group
Porifera
Cnidaria
Platyhelminthes

Sponges
Hydras
Flatworms, tapeworms

Annelids

Earthworms, Leeches

Mollusks

Snails, clams, squids

Nematodes

Roundworms

Arthropods

Insects, crabs, spiders,

centipedes
Starfish, sea urchins

Echinoderms

Common Name

Distinguishing Characteristics
Pore-bearing animals
Hollow intestined animals
Flattened, elongated, wormlike
animals
Animals with externally evident
segmentation, ringed animals
Soft-bodied animals usually living in a
shelter or exoskeletons
Elogated, unsegmented wormlike
animals, thread-like animals
Segmented animals with hardened
outer skeleton
Spiny-skinned animals