Animal Diversity
What taxonomic kingdom do humans belong to?
Anamalia
Animals that lack a backbone are called:
Invertebrates
Sponges
Porifera
What two body systems allow vertebrates to capture food and evade predators?
Skeletal System and Nervous System
Means "both ways of life" referring to the metamorphosis of an aquatic larva into a terrestrial adult
Amphibian
What is the primary nutritional mode of animals - how do we get our nutrients?
We are heterotrophs - so we injest (eat) our food
What does it mean to be a filter feeder?
The animal captures food particles suspended in the water that passes through their body
Flatworms
Platyhelminthes
Scientific name given to jawed vertebrates
Gnathostomes
A group of tetrapods whose living members are the reptiles, including birds, and mammals
Amniotes
A sexually immature and morphologically unique stage of life - EG: a tadpole
Larva
What phylum do jellies, corals and hydras belong to?
Cnidarians
Roundworms
Nematoda
Clade that includes sharks, rays and their relatives
Chondrichthyans
What does it mean to be ectothermic?
Absorbing external heat as the main source of body heat
During which era were dinosaurs the dominant terrestrial vertebrate?
Mesozoic Era
What is the strap like organ in molluscs that scrapes up food?
Radula
Centipedes, Millipedes
Arthropods
The air sac that controls buoyancy in fishes
Swim Bladder
Name two adaptations that facilitate birds to fly
Keratin feathers, lack a urinary bladder, one ovary in females, loss of teeth
What body plan (which symmetry) has a right and left side?
Bilateral symmetry
What is the scientific term for "stomach foot"
Gastropod
Insects, Spiders, Mites
Arthropods
The name given to the fossil - the oldest known "fishapod" - displaying characteristics of both tetrapods and fish
Tiktaalik
Name two characteristics of mammals
Have mammary glands (which produce milk), hair, high metabolic rate, larger brain, differentiated teeth