Phyla of the Animal Kingdom
Insects
Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
Miscellaneous
100

Animals that are worm-like and have segmented bodies

What are annelids?

100

True or False: Insects usually have two pairs of wings

True

100

A soft-bodied invertebrate that is often protected by a hard shell

What are mollusks?

100

An animal without a backbone, such as an insect

What is an invertebrate?

100

These annelids can mix soil

What are earthworms?

200

Animals that have round worm-like bodies with no segment

What are nematodes?

200

The hard, outer skeleton that surrounds an animal's body

What is exoskeleton?

200

An invertebrate with jointed legs and 2 pairs of antennae

What is a crestacean?

200

Long sensory organs on an insects head

What are antennae?

200

True or false: Worms are found only in the soil, never in the water.

False: Worms are found in both the soil and the water.

300

Animals with a spiny skin, sucker feed, and a 5-rayed body

What are Echinoderms?

300

The central body part of an insect

What is the thorax?

300

A small sea animal that lives in colonies and catches food with stinging tentacles

What is coral?

300

An immature insect that that resembles an adult, but has no wings.

What is nymph?

300

Crabs use these to defend themselves, catch food, and signal other animals

What are pincers?

400

Animals that live in water and have sack-like bodies with a single opening

What are cnidarians?

400

A major change in the animal's body shape during its life cycle

What is metamorphosis?

400

A mollusk with a shell made of two parts

What is a bivalve?

400

A young animal that develops into an adult by a complete change in body shape

What is larva?

400

Octopuses and squids move through the water using this

What is jet propulsion?

500

Animals that have perforated interior walls; most feed on bacteria

What are porifera?

500

Egg, larva, chrysalis, and adult

What are the 4 stages of a butterfly?

500

A small sea animal with a hollow cylindrical body and a ring of tentacles around it's mouth

What is a polyp?

500

The umbrella-shaped, swimming stage in the lifecycle of cnidarians

What is medusa?

500

These two animals work together to provide one with shelter and the other with food

What are coral and algae?

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