Invertebrates
Arthropoda
Chordata
Kingdom Plantae
Reptiles, Birds, & Mammals
100
An organism possesses this kind of symmetry if it can be cut into two identical halves by any cut through the organism's center.
What is spherical symmetry?
100
A body covering, typically made of chitin, that provides support and protection.
What is an exoskeleton?
100
All members of the phylum Chordata have this in common
What is a backbone?
100
The study of plants
What is Botany?
100
Name 2 common characteristics of the class Aves
What are endothermic, 4 chambered heart, toothless bill, oviparous, covered with feathers,
200
A system designed to transport food and other necessary substances throughout a creature's body
What is a circulatory system?
200
Most creatures of this class live in either fresh water or marine environments (crayfish or lobster), although some are land dwellers (pill bug).
What is Crustacea?
200
Name 3 characteristics that separate Amphibians from other Vertebrata
What are endoskeleton made mostly of bone, smooth skin, two pairs of limbs with webbed feet, as many as 4 organs for respiration, three chambered heart, oviparous with external fertilization? (Any 3)
200
Living vascular tissue that carries sugar and organic substances throughout a plant
What is phloem?
200
An organism that is internally warmed by a heat generating metabolic process
What is an endotherm?
300
Possessing both the male and female reproductive organs
What is hermaphroditic?
300
The grasshopper has one of this body part which is designed for chewing.
What is a mandible?
300
This is the class for fish
What is Osteichthyes?
300
A plant or tree that loses it leaves for winter
What is a deciduous plant?
300
Name 3 common characteristics of reptiles.
What are covered with tough, dry scales, ectothermic, breathe with lungs all of their lives, three chambered heart, produce amniotic eggs covered with a leathery shell. (Any 3)
400
The ability to regrow a missing part of the body
What is regeneration?
400
These are the 3 basic types of webs that spiders spin
What are sheet webs, tangle webs, and orb webs?
400
A state of extremely low metabolism and respiration accompanied by lower than normal body temperature.
What is hibernation?
400
This gives leaves their green color
What is clorophyll?
400
Name 3 common characteristics of class Mammalia
What are hair covering the skin, reproduce with internal fertilization and usually viviparous, nourish young with milk from mammary glands, 4 chambered heart, endothermic. (Any 3)
500
Most members of this phylum have a mangle, a shell, a visceral hump, a foot and a radula.
What is Mollusca?
500
These are the 5 common characteristics of arthropods.
What an exoskeleton, body segmentation, jointed appendages, a ventral nervous system, and an open circulatory system?
500
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
500
The transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the carpel in flowering plants.
What is pollination?
500
A mammal has large, sharp incisor teeth in both the upper and lower jaws which grow continually and are used to gnaw and bite, so it belongs to this order.
What is Rodentia?
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