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Characteristics of Life
Taxonomy
Vertebrates
Invertebrates
Animal Behavior
100
Provide their own food for energy through the process of photosynthesis
What is an Autotroph?
100
The study of how scientists classify organisms.
What is taxonomy?
100
Are ectothermic, obtain dissolved oxygen in water through gills, most lay eggs, have scales, have fins, and live in water.
What are fish?
100
● Very simple animals that have many pores (holes) through which water flows. ● Water moves into a central cavity and out through a hole in the top. ● Obtain their food and eliminate wastes through this passage of water. ● They have specialized cells for obtaining food and oxygen from the water.
What are sponges?
100
● Allow animals to move to fulfill their needs such as finding food and escaping predators (Examples: legs, feet, arms, tails, fins, wings, , skeleton)
What are structures for movement?
200
Any change in an organism’s surroundings that will cause the organism to react
What is a stimulus?
200
Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species
What are the levels of classification?
200
Are ectothermic, most can breathe in water with gills as young, go through metamorphosis and breathe on land with lungs as adults, and lay jelly-like eggs.
What are amphibians?
200
● Have jointed legs, segmented bodies, and some have wings. ● Have hard outer coverings called exoskeletons. ● Obtain oxygen from the air through gills or air tubes. ● Examples may be insects, arachnids, and crustaceans.
What are arthropods?
200
The movement of animals from one place to another in response to seasonal changes. They travel to other places where food is available.
What is migration?
300
A process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that is identical to the parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
300
The number of phyla the animal kingdom is divided into.
What is 35?
300
Are endothermic, breathe with lungs, most have babies that are born live, have fur or hair; and produce milk to feed their young.
What are mammals?
300
● Have long tube-like bodies that are divided into segments. ● Simplest organisms with a true nervous system and blood contained in vessels. ● A long digestive tube runs down the length of the worm’s inner body. ● Take in dissolved oxygen from the water through their skin. ● Examples may be earthworms and leeches.
What are segmented worms?
300
When a weaker animal copies stronger animals' characteristics to warn off predators.
What is mimicry?
400
The process that occurs in the life of the organism that results in the organism becoming more complex structurally.
What is development?
400
Consists of all the organisms of the same type which are able to breed and produce young of the same kind.
What is species?
400
Are endothermic, breathe with lungs, lay eggs, have feathers, and have a beak, two wings, and two feet.
What are birds?
400
● Have arms that extend from the middle body outwards. ● Have tube feet that take in oxygen from the water and spines. ● Examples may be sea stars, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, or sea urchins.
What are echinoderms?
400
● Allow an animal to hide from a predator or warn a predator (Examples: camouflage or mimicry (copying the appearance, actions, or sounds of another animal) ● Allow an animal to make a direct, attack painful (Examples: horns, claws, quills, stingers, or venom) ● Allow an animal to prevent a direct attack (Examples: Mechanisms such as having shells, emitting smells or body fluids (ink) ● Allow an animal to change its size (Examples: puffing up fur, inflating body) ● Allow an animal to flee or hide from predators (Examples: Body design that allows for speed or jumping or wings and light-weight skeletons for flying.)
What are structures for defense?
500
The process whereby the organism becomes larger (has an increase in height, mass, and/or overall size).
What is growth?
500
Contains closely related organisms.
What is genus?
500
Are ectothermic, breathe with lungs, most lay eggs, although in some the eggs hatch inside the female, and have scales or plates.
What are reptiles?
500
● Have soft bodies; most have a thick muscular foot for movement or to open and close their shells. ● Have more developed body systems than sponges or worms. ● Take in oxygen through gills or lungs, and some have shells. ● Examples may be slugs, snails, clams, and octopuses.
What are mollusks?
500
A behavior in which newborn animals recognize and follow the first moving object they see.
What is imprinting?