All About Animals
What is eukaryotic?
Animals with a backbone.
The phylum of invertebrate characterized by repeating segments that make up its body.
What are annelids?
This classification of chordates lives in water and uses structures called gills to get oxygen instead of lungs.
What are fish?
A fluid filled cavity in an animal's body.
What is coelom?
Tiny holes on the surface of an animals body that allow gasses to enter and exit.
What are spiracles?
Animals get their energy by eating _____ _____.
What are living things?
Animals that don't have a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
Sea anemones and jellyfish are both organisms that belong to this kingdom. They have tissues, but no organs or organ systems and have radial symmetry.
What are cnidarians?
What is a notochord?
Name two ways animals move.
What are...
walking
swimming
flying
jumping etc.
This kind of circulatory system transports blood and other fluids throughout the body of an animal without blood vessels.
What is open circulatory system?
If there were 100 species in a phylum and 52 of them had a three chambered heart, what percent has a three chambered heart?
What is 52%?
An animal that cannot be divided such that it produces two identical parts is said to be _____.
What is asymmetrical?
Two examples of mollusks.
What are snails, slugs, squid, mussels, octopi or clams?
The most notable and defining characteristic of mammals.
What is mammary glands?
Animals that don't have a backbone sometimes have a hard outer shell that protects their body known as a _____.
What is exoskeleton?
Organs that allow oxygen to diffuse from water into the body of an animal.
What are gills?
Instead of a spinal cord, some animals have a _____ _____, which is a netlike control system that sends signals to all parts of the body.
An animal with one plane of division, that is it can be divided into two mirror images of itself has this kind of symmetry.
What is bilateral symmetry?
This phyla is the most closely related to vertebrates. They have hard plates in their body that act as a pseudo-skeleton and tube feet that allow them to move and get food. What are they?
What are echinoderms?
Defining characteristic of amphibians.
What is they live part of their life in water, and part on land?
Fish and snakes are both examples of animals that move in a wavelike pattern called _____.
What is undulation?
The kidneys of fish secrete their waste as _____, which has a high water content.
What is ammonia?
Hard flat plates that cover the body of reptiles.
What are scales?
An animal that can be divided into two mirror images of itself down any plane no matter the direction as long as the plane travels through the center of the animals body is said to have this kind of symmetry.
What is radial symmetry?
Insects and arachnids belong to the biggest phylum of organisms on the planet, there are more species of this phylum than all other species of animals combined. What is it and what are they characterized by?
What are arthropods?
Characterized by exoskeletons and jointed appendages.
This structure is found in birds and acts like the stomach, mechanically grinding the food eaten by the bird using tiny rocks ingested through the beak.
What is the gizzard?
Animals with a nerve cord have _____, which are smaller extensions of nervous tissue that spread throughout the body and transport signals.
What are neurons?
What are incisors, that are used for ripping and molars which are used for grinding?