Animal Science
How do you refer to animals with a backbone?
Vertebrates
What do fishes use to swim?
Fins
How do you refer to the study of living things and how do they relate to the environment?
Ecology
How do you refer to living organisms which make their own food?
Producers
How do you refer to animals without a backbone?
Invertebrates
What grouping do crabs, lobsters, shrimp and crayfish belong to ?
Crustaceans
What name is given to a community of living things and all the non- living things which they interact with?
Ecosystem
What is the scientific study of animal life on Earth?
Zoology
What is an endoskeleton?
The skeletal system found on the inside of an animal
What do you call invertebrates with six jointed legs and segmented bodies?
Insects
What name is given to the physical surroundings of an organism?
Environment
How do you refer to an offspring resulting from a cross between two species or subspecies?
A hybrid
example: a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey
What is an exoskeleton?
The skeleton found outside of the animals
What are the THREE main segments of an insect?
The head, Thorax and Abdomen
How do you refer to all the individuals of one species that live and reproduce in the same area at the same time?
Population
How do you refer to a class of organisms having the same characteristics and is capable of breeding with each other?
Name some animals with exoskeletons
Insects, Crabs, lobsters
What class do bugs with eight legs belong to?
Arachnids
What word is used to refer to a living thing ( an individual plant or animal) ?
Organism
What is the scientific study of plant life on Earth ?
Botany