Animal Eating Habits
Eats other animals (meat)
What is a carnivore?
Animals with feathers
What are birds?
An animal with a soft body and a mantle, some have shells. (Ex. octopus, oyster)
What is a mollusk?
Most animals are this, meaning they have no backbone
What is an invertebrate?
An animal that has hair and produces milk
What is a mammal?
Eats only plants
What is a herbivore?
An animal with three body segments and three pairs of legs
What is an insect?
An animal with jointed legs, a segmented body, and an exoskeleton (Ex. shrimp, spiders)
What is an arthropod?
__________ symmetry is when an animal has body parts that repeat around a central part.
What is radial?
A technique where animals use sound to judge the distance to object, this is used by bats and dolphins
What is echolocation?
Eats plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
An arthropod with two body segments and eight legs.
What is an arachnid?
This type of animal gets its food from the water that flows through its body. They are a type of filter feeder.
What is a sponge?
___________ symmetry is when something can be divided down the middle and be the same on each side.
What is bilateral?
The stages of incomplete metamorphosis are egg, ___________, and adult.
What is nymph?
Eats mainly insects
What is an insectivore?
Has many body segments and many legs
What is a centipede or millipede?
Animals that have soft bodies and are made up of many segments. Many move with a hairlike structure called setae. (Ex. earthworm)
What is an annelid?
Birds and mammals are this, meaning they have body temperatures that stay basically the same.
What is warm-blooded?
A butterfly goes through this type of metamorphosis (egg, larva, pupa, adult)
What is complete metamorphosis?
When an animal lives on or in a host and depends on the host for nourishment
What is a parasite?
An arthropod with five pairs of legs and a claw
What is a crustacean?
An animal with radial symmetry that lives in the water and moves around with thousands of little tube feet located on their undersides.
What is an echinoderm?
Amphibians, fish, and reptiles are this, meaning they must get warmth or coolness from their environment.
What is cold-blooded?
Tiny stinging organelles found on some animals
What are nematocysts?