Definition: When a body organization cannot be divided into any two parts that are nearly mirror images of each other.
What is asymmetry?
100
Animals have cells that contain this protein which surrounds the cells and helps them keep their shape.
What is collagen?
100
The definition of an Invertebrate.
What is an animal without a backbone?
100
Definition: An animal with a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
100
Birds use these to grind their food.
What are gizzards?
200
The definition of an exoskeleton.
What is a thick, hard outer covering that protects and supports animals' bodies?
200
The three types of body symmetry.
What are asymmetry, radial symmetry, and bilateral symmetry?
200
The simplest of all invertebrates.
What is a sponge?
200
The five groups of vertebrates and an example of each.
What are fish, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians?
200
Name of an egg-laying mammal.
What is the duck-billed platypus?
300
Definition: A structure, such as a leg or arm, that extend from the central part of the body.
What is an appendage?
300
Two ways animals get their energy.
What are eating other organisms and digesting their food?
300
The specialized cells used by cnidarians to capture food.
What are nematocysts?
300
Three characteristics of an amphibian.
What are gills, then lungs, three chambered heart, no protective covering of eggs, need moist area to lay eggs, part in water, part on land?
300
The phylum Arthropoda can be divided into these three groups.
What are insects, arachnids and crustaceans?
400
Definition: An animal that has a notochord, a nerve cord, a tail, and structures called pharyngeal pouches.
What is a chordate?
400
Three ways animals can be classified.
What are whether or not they have a backbone, type of body symmetry, DNA, RNA, and proteins in their cells?
400
The three phyla that includes worms.
What are Annelida, Nematoda, Platyhelminthes?
400
The four characteristics of all chordates.
What are a notochord, nerve cord, tail, pharyngeal pouches?
400
Two ways earthworms are beneficial to the environment.
What are:
1. tunnel through soil allowing air and water to get to plants
2. loosens the soil
3. consume a variety of thing which in turn become casting that enrich the soil/their waste fertilize the soil?
500
The definition of a notochord.
What is a flexible, rod-shaped structure that supports the body of a developing chordate?
500
The names of five of the nine phyla.
What are Annelida, Arthropoda, Chordata, Mollusca, Echinodermata, Nematoda, Platyhelminthes, Cnidaris, Porifera?
500
The Five phyla with an example of each.
Arthropoda Chordata Mollusca Echinodermata Cnidaria
slugs sea cucumbers jellyfish spider humans
What are
Arthropoda- spider
Chordata- humans
Mollusca- slugs
Echinodermata -sea cucumbers
Cnidaria- jelly fish?
500
The classes of fish and an example of each.
What are jawless fish-lamprey, hagfish
cartilaginous fish-shark, skates, rays
bony fish-tuna, trout, guppies, perch, mackerel?
500
The four characteristics shared by all vertebrates.
What are
1. well-developed organ systems
2. have digestive systems with two openings
3. have circulatory systems that move blood through the body
4. nervous systems that include brains?