Vocabulary
This type of symmetry is seen when the left and right side of an organism are nearly identical.
What is bilateral symmetry?
Scientists group animals using a system called this.
These are animals without a backbone
What are invertebrates?
What is the amnion?
This groups uses the following adaptations: Hollow bones, feathers, and streamlined body shape.
What are birds?
This type of symmetry is shown by many different symmetry lines crossing at a central point in the center of an organism.
What is radial symmetry?
Which trait is common to all animals?
What are nerve cells/collagen?
How does a sponge obtain its food?
What is filter feeding?
This group needs water and land to survive. They are smooth skinned and have gills during birth, but develop lungs as they grow into adults.
What are amphibians?
These organisms are able to generate heat by using their metabolism to burn calories.
What are endotherms?
This is an inherited trait that increases an organism's chances of surviving and reproducing in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
This type of skeleton is a rigid framework found within an animals body.
What is endoskeleton?
Name a type of parasite that uses a dog as its host.
What are fleas, ticks, heart worms, hook worms
These are the three groupings of fish.
What are jawless, sharks and rays, and bony fish.
This group has hair or fur, mammary glands, and a backbone.
What are mammals?
The absence of symmetry in an organism is called this.
What is asymmetry?
This type of skeleton is a hard outer covering for animals like insects and arthropods.
What is exoskeleton?
Cnidarians have this adaptation that allows poison to be injected into pray.
What are nematocysts?
This group has a dry and scaly covering. They are amniotic ectotherms.
What are reptiles?
A rare type of mammal that lays eggs.
What is a monotreme?
What are the three types of adaptations?
DAILY DOUBLE
This type of skeleton is filled with fluid in order to keep the structure of the organism.
What is hydrostatic?
This is the largest group of invertebrates. They have jointed appendages, 3 body parts, and an exoskeleton.
What are arthropods?
DAILY DOUBLE
These are the four characteristics of chordates.
What are nerve cord, notochord, tail, pharyngeal pouches
Dogs, cats, horses, cows and humans have this structure in which the young are attached.
What is placenta?