Invertebrates
This type of animal has no backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
The phylum of animals that have jointed legs and a segments body with an exoskeleton.
What are arthropods?
Can be divided down the middle.
What is bilateral symmetry?
Name the six main types of vertebrates.
What are fish, reptile, amphibian, bird, mammal, and human?
a feature in which animals have body parts that radiate around the central part.
What is radial symmetry?
An invertebrate that has a soft body and a mantle.
What is a mollusk?
This hard covering that acts like a knights armor protecting an arthropod's body.
What is an exoskeleton?
These live on or in living things called hosts.
What is a parasite?
Name the three stages of of metamorphosis for frogs?
What is egg, larva, adult?
What are filter feeders?
Thin, glassy spines that protect the sponge and act like optical fibers.
What are spicules?
When a creature sheds its exoskeleton.
What is molting?
These worms get their food from the soil.
What are earthworms?
Name the stages of Complete metamorphosis?
What is egg, larva, puppy, and adult?
This type of mammal is lays eggs.
What is a monotreme?
Animals that have radial symmetry.
What are echinoderms?
This type of arthropod breathes through gills and has jointed leg's and antennae.
What is a crustacean?
Name three groups of worms.
What are flat worms, round worms, and segmented worms.
Name the stages of incomplete metamorphosis?
What is adult, egg, nymph?
This arthropod has three body segments, three pairs of legs, and usually two pairs of wings.
What is an insect?
This is a tiny stingy organelle found on jellyfish.
What is nematocyst?
This arthropod has eight legs and two body segments.
What is an arachnid?
Hairlike structures that many segmented worms use to move.
What are Setae? (Pronounced SEE tee)
A bone like substance that is softer and more bendable than bone.
What is cartilage?
The process of an animal becoming an adult through a series of distinctive stages?
What is the process of metamorphosis?