Animal Characteristics
Invertebrates
Vertebrates
Phylum
Phylum Examples
100

An animal with a backbone.

What is a Vertebrate?

100
Is a sponge a invertebrate or vertebrate.
invertebrate
100
A warm-blooded veretbrate that has hair, gives birth, and feeds its baby milk.
What is a mammal?
100

The circulatory system in which the blood flows freely through the body cavity

What is open circulatory?

100

Coelenterata (Cnidarian)

What is sea anemones, jellyfish, coral, hydra?

200
An animal without a backbone.
What is an inveretebrate?
200
The group of invertebrates that uses poisonous stingers on tentacles to capture prey and for protection.
What is cnidarian?
200
A vertebrate that has feathers, a beak, clawed or webbed feet, is warm-blooded, and lays eggs.
What is a bird?
200

A line passing through the centre of the body does not divide the organism into two equal halves

What is assymetry?

200

Sponges

What is Porifera?

300

The descendants of a common ancestor

What is Phylum?

300
Soft-bodied inveretebrates, for example: snails, slugs, clams, octopus, squid...
What is a mollusk?
300
A cold-blooded vertebrate that lives on land and has dry waterproof scaled skin.
What is a reptile?
300

The animals whose body develops from two embryonic layers

What is diploblastic?

300

Annelida

What is segmented worms, earthworms, leeches?

400
Animals that have a CONSTANT body temperature.
What is warm-blooded?
400
Echinoderms, like the starfish, sand dollar, and sea urchin, have this INTERNAL supporting structure.
What is an ENDOSKELETON?
400
A cold-blooded vertebrate that spends part of its life in the water and part on land.
What is an amphibian?
400

The type of body in which there is no body cavity

What is Acoelom?

400

Platyhelminthes

What is the flat worms?

500

Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fish all ___________.

Cold blooded
500
The largest group of invertebrates, the arthropds, have this hard skeleton on the OUTSIDE of their bodies.
What is an EXOSKELETON?
500

A cold-blooded vertebrate that lives in water and has gills for breathing. 

What is a fish? 

500

A line passing through the centre of the body divides the organism  into  two  identical  halves,  in  any  plane  is called radial symmetry

What is Radial Symmetry

500

The biggest phylum and includes all of the higher order animals

What is the Chordata?

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