Lesson 35: How Animals

Survive (Nutrition)
The learners explain the different metabolic processes involved in the various
organ systems and describe the general and unique characteristics of the
different organ systems in representative animals (S11/12LT-IIIaj-20 and
S11/12LT-IIIaj-21)
Animal nutrition is the process of taking in,
taking apart and taking up the nutrients from
a food source.

4 main stages of Food processing :

1 Ingestion,
2 Digestion,
3 Absorption
4 Elimination or Egestion.
The four main feeding mechanisms are:
1filter feeding,
2 substrate feeding
3 fluid feeding and
4 bulk feeding
1. Filter feeding- uses
adaptation in feeding
food particles from the
environment.

2. Substrate feeding- animals

live in or on their food
source.
3. Fluid feeding-
animals suck nutrient-
rich fluid from a host
or a source.
4. Bulk feeding-
animals, such as us
humans, take in large
particle sized food.
The circulatory system is a
network consisting of blood,
blood vessels, and the heart. This
network supplies tissues in the
body with oxygen and other
nutrients, transports hormones,
and removes unnecessary waste
products.
The respiratory system is
the system in the human
body that enables us to
breathe.
The act of breathing
includes: inhaling and
exhaling air in the body.
The immune system is
the body's defense
against infectious
organisms and other
invaders.
The Excretory system is The nervous system is a
responsible for the complex network of nerves and cells
that carry messages to and from the
elimination of wastes brain and spinal cord to various parts of
produced by homeostasis. the body.