Body Systems
What organ in the excretory system is used for filtering waste?
What is an invertebrate with no symmetry, cephalization, or gut?
Sponge
Which vertebrate group spends the first portion of their life in the water the other part on land?
Amphibians
What is the name for a person who studies animals?
Zoologist
What are animals that feed on plants?
Herbivores
What are the closed structures which blood moves through in the body?
Vessels
Which invertebrate group has stinging cells used to capture food?
Cnidarians
What mammals have a pouch used to raise their young?
Marsupials
What type of symmetry occurs when you can draw one line stright down the middle of an animal?
Bilateral Symmetry
What type of digestion uses structures like the mouth, teeth, and jaws?
Mechanical Digestion
What term means the taking in of oxygen and the removal of carbon dioxide?
Respiration
Which invertebrate group has spiny skin?
Echinoderms
What fish group includes examples like sharks and rays?
Cartilaginous Fish
What is the term for the location of the brain and sensory organs in your body?
Cephalization
What are animals that eat both plants and animals?
Omnivores
What are special cells that collect information?
Neurons
Which group is the largest class of arthropods?
Insects
What is another name for the egg-laying mammals?
Monotremes
What man created the modern classification system that we use today?
Carolus Linnaeus
What type of animals has structures that strain food items out of the water?
Filter Feeders
What are the threadlike structures in gills that allow for more surface area?
Filaments
Cephalopods and Gastropods are an example of which group of invertebrates?
Mollusks
What is another name for snakes and lizards?
Squamates
What term attempts to define the boundaries between created kinds of animals?
Baraminology
What structure is used by snails and slugs to rasp away the surface of leaves?
Radula