Animal Traits
True or False:
All animals are consumers.
True!
This vertebrate has hair, mammary glands and produce milk.
What is a mammal?
This invertebrate are arthropods with either eight or ten legs. (Think Lobster or Crabs)
What are crustaceans?
What three things do all vertebrate have?
backbones, endoskeletons, and skulls
Which category do most animals fall under: invertebrates or vertebrates?
Most animals are invertebrates!
What do we call a digestive system with two openings?
a complete gut
This vertebrate has skin with the ability to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What is an Amphibian?
This invertebrate is a long, soft-bodied animal with bilateral symmetry.
What are worms?
Which mammal type raise their young in a pouch?
marsupials
These animals are the only invertebrates that can fly.
What are insects?
What is the term for sensory organs and a brain concentrated at one end?
Cephalization
An animal, such as a bird, that can regulate its inner body temperature is known as a what?
Endotherm
This invertebrate has no symmetry, cephalization or guts and is known as a "pore-bearer."
What are sponges?
Sharks and rays are examples of which type of fish?
Cartilaginous fish
These invertebrates have jointed appendages.
What are arthropods?
An animal with this type of animal characteristic would need sunlight to warm their sluggish bodies after a cold night.
What are ectotherms?
How can you best describe a chordate?
An animal that at some point during their lives have a notochord.
These invertebrates are sea urchins and other marine animal with radial symmetry and spiny skin.
What are echinoderms?
What is the structure that attaches an embryo to a placenta for a placental mammal?
umbilical cord
These invertebrates are arthropods with two body segments and eight legs, with a mouthpart called chelicera. (Think: arachnids like spiders or scorpions)
What are chelicerates?
What are the 5 characteristics that animals are classified by?
1. Symmetry
2. Cephalization
3. Guts and Body Cavities
4. Presence of a backbone
5. Regulate Body Temperature
Accept any two:
1. Snakes have no legs, while lizards have four.
2. Snakes do not have ear openings, while lizards do.
3. Snakes have immovable eyelids, while those of lizards are moveable.
These invertebrates have cnidocytes to ting and capture food. (Think jellyfish and coral)
What are cnidarians?
Identify the following mammals as a marsupial, a monotreme or a placental mammal:
dog, echidna, kangaroo, opossum, platypus, and whale.
Marsupials: kangaroo, opossum
Monotreme: echidna, platypus
Placental mammals: dogs, whale
These invertebrate rely on hard shells for protection (except for the cephalopod which have an internal shell-like skeleton)
What are mollusks?