Groups of Invertebrates
All About Vertebrates
Mixing It Up!
Characteristics of Animals
Where Do I Belong?
100
This phylum of animals are known for their spiny skins.
What are echinoderms?
100
An animal's body temperature depends on the temperature of the air around it.
What is cold-blooded?
100
Insects are part of this phylum.
What are arthropods?
100
To have many cells.
What is multicellular?
100
Spiders, lobsters and crabs are part of this phylum.
What are arthropods?
200
These animals are filter feeders.
What are sponges?
200
Animals in this phylum have gills, fins, and scales.
What are fish?
200
To have the same body parts on both sides of a dividing line.
What is bilateral symmetry?
200
Animals cannot make their own food, they must do this.
What is eat or consume food?
200
Sharks are in this phylum.
What are fish?
300
Some animals in this phylum are parasitic- meaning they live off of another animal.
What are worms?
300
This phylum of vertebrates spends part of their lives in water and part of their lives on land.
What are amphibians?
300
Jellyfish, corals, and sea anemones have these type of cells that give their phylum its name.
What are stinging cells? (cnidarians)
300
All animals cells have this in them- something that bacteria do not have.
What is a nucleus.
300
Humans are part of this phylum.
What are mammals?
400
These soft bodied invertebrates usually have shells- but not always.
What are mollusks?
400
These animals have dry, scaly skin and includes lizards, snakes, and turtles.
What are reptiles?
400
Animals that are able to regulate their own body temperatures.
What is warm-blooded?
400
Because animals can do this, they are able to find food, mates, a place to live and to escape predators.
What is move?
400
Snails are in this phylum.
What are mollusks?
500
This largest phylum of animals in the animal kingdom includes insects.
What are arthropods?
500
These vertebrates have hair or fur at some point in their lives and feed milk to their young.
What are mammals?
500
The least complex animals in the animal kingdom.
What are sponges?
500
Vertebrates are different than invertebrates because they have this.
What is a backbone or spinal column.
500
Sea stars (starfish) are a member of this phylum.
What are echinoderms?
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