Animal Characteristics
It's all about Animals
The Vertebrates
The Invertebrates
Invertebrate and Vertebrae Combination Category
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The sequence in which energy flows among a group of organisms is called a
food chain
100
An animal that gets heat from outside its body is
cold-blooded
100
Fish that have jaws and skeletons made of bone are called
bony fish
100
An animal with jointed legs and a body that is divided into sections belongs to the ____ phylum
anthropod
100
Animals with one shell, two shells, or an inner shell belong to the _______ phylum
mollusk
200
An animal with a backbone is called a
vertebrate
200
An animal a with constant body temperature is
warm-blooded
200
Soft, slimy fish with suckerlike mouths are called
jawless fish
200
Animals with simple tissues, a mouth, and radial symmetry, such as hydra and jellyfish, belong to the _____ phylum
cnidarian
200
Warm-blooded vertebrae with hair that feeds milk to its young is a
mammal
300
An animal with body parts that extend outward from a central point has ______ symmetry
radial
300
A hard covering that protects an invertebrate's body is an
exoskeleton
300
A cold-blooded vertebrate that lives on land and has waterproof skin with scales or plates is a
reptile
300
The arthropod class which includes bees, ants, and mosquitoes is the
insects
300
The class of arthropods that includes crabs, lobsters and shrimp is the
Crustaceans
400
The way an animal's body part match up around a point or central line is
symmetry
400
A tough material that makes up exoskeletons is
chitin
400
A vertebrate with feathers, a beak and clawed feet is a
bird
400
A class of arthropods that includes spiders is
arachnids
400
A fish with a skeleton made of cartilage is a
cartilaginous fish
500
Animals get energy from
food
500
An internal supporting structure is called
endoskeleton
500
A cold-blooded vertebrate that spends part of its life in water and part of its life on land is an
amphibian
500
The simplest worms, with flat, ribbon-like bodies, are called
flatworms
500
More complex worms, with bodies divided into sections, are called
segmented worms
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