Animal Features
Animals with backbones.
What are vertebrates?
Animals that feed on plants.
What are herbivores?
This type of muscle works without us having to think about it.
What is involuntary muscle?
The teeth perform this kind of digestion.
What is mechanical digestion?
This blood vessel carries blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
A characteristic of animals which have sensory organs and a brain concentrated at one end.
What is cephalization?
Animals caught and eaten by other animals.
What is prey?
Biceps and triceps are examples of this kind of muscle.
What is voluntary/skeletal muscle?
This organ absorbs most of the nutrients in chyme.
What is the small intestines?
This muscle underneath the lungs assists in breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
Jellyfish exhibit this kind of symmetry
What is radial symmetry?
A band of tissue which connect bones together.
What is a ligament?
This substance in the bone produces blood cells.
What is bone marrow?
Lungs, kidneys, and sweat glands are part of this biological system.
What is the excretory system?
This chamber of the heart is where blood first enters from the systemic veins (#1).
What is the right atrium?
Animals which regulate their body temperature internally.
What are endotherms?
Mammals have this kind of chambered heart.
What are four-chambered hearts?
The connective tissue which connects muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
The involuntary moving of food through the alimentary canal.
What is peristalsis?
The microscopic structures in the lungs where gas exchange occurs.
What are the alveoli?
jellies, corals, and sea anemones
What are cnidarians?
Jellyfish have this type of skeleton.
What are hydrostatic skeletons?
The circular layers created by living cells inside compact bone.
What are osteons?
The microscopic fingerlike structures that line the small intestine and absorb nutrients.
What are villi?
This molecule found in red blood cells carries oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?