Types of Invertebrates
These invertebrates live in the dirt and help nourish the soil for plants.
Earthworms
The most broad level of classification.
Domain
This group of fish have skeletons made up of bones.
Bony fish
A predator's food is called.
Prey
The five major groups of vertebrates.
fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, and birds
This invertebrate can regenerate parts of its body through shedding its shell.
Crab
The most specific level of classification?
species
These bony fish have to swim upstream to lay their eggs.
Salmon
Giraffe live in this type of ecosystem.
Grasslands
This type of observation includes numbers.
Quantitative
Some invertebrates like jellyfish, don't have brains. What do they have instead?
A nerve net
The 3rd level of classification?
Phylum
Name the 3 categories of fish.
Rivalry between two or more living things for resources, territory, or mates.
Competition
The earliest vertebrate evolved this many years ago.
Approximately 500 million years ago
Crabs are one species in a larger phylum called.
Crustaceans
The 5th level of classification.
Order
Sharks and stingrays are examples of what kind of fish.
Cartilaginous fish
The relationship between clownfish and sea anemones.
Symbiosis (Mutualism)
These invertebrates have antennas, considered an arthropod, small but mighty and can lift and carry more than 50x its own weight!
Ants
This percentage represents how many of the animals on Earth are invertebrates.
97%
A scientific name for a species is written this way.
Genus species
Jawless fish and bony fish have this body part that helps them control their depth in the water.
Swim bladder
A parasitic relationship is a symbiotic relationship where...
one organism benefits at the other organism's expense
Name three unique behaviors or features of bony fish?
Spawning (external fertilization), lateral line system