Characteristics of Animals
The term used to describe an animal, such as a bird, that can regulate its inner body temperature.
What is endothermic?
An animal without a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
The only invertebrates that can fly.
What are insects?
Periodic shedding of skin by squamates.
What is molting?
Other than having vertebrae, all vertebrates share this characteristic.
What is an endoskeleton?
A digestive system with two openings.
What is a complete gut?
Other than not having a backbone, all invertebrates share this characteristic.
What is an ectotherm?
Spiders, scorpions, and other arthropods with two body segments and eight legs.
What are chelicerates?
This animal has no legs, no ear openings and has immovable eyelids.
What is a snake?
A type of fish without scales or paired fins.
What is a jawless fish?
This term is used to describe an animal when the sensory organs and brain are concentrated at one end.
What is cephalization?
This animal has no symmetry, no cephalization and no gut.
What is a sponge?
Arthropods with either eight or ten legs.
What are crustaceans?
This structure attaches an embryo to a placenta.
What is an umbilical cord?
This term comes from Greek words meaning "double life."
What is an amphibian?
The study in which creationist taxonomists have attempted to define where the boundaries are between the various kinds of animals. The term itself comes from the Hebrew words meaning "created kind."
What is baraminology?
This group of animals has radial symmetry and stinging cells (cnidocytes), used to capture food.
What are cnidarians?
Sea urchins and other marine mammals with radial symmetry and spiny skin.
What are echinoderms?
Kangaroo, opossum and koalas, are examples of mammals who raise animals in a pouch.
A cow is an example of this type of mammal.
What is a placental mammal?
Two equal halves divided along a midline.
What is bilateral symmetry?
A leech, displaying bilateral symmetry, is an example of this type of worm.
What is a segmented worm?
What is an ectotherm?
Another name of an egg laying mammal, such as a platypus or echidna.
What is a monotreme?
These animals are covered in scale like scutes.
What are crocodilians?