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Animals
Insects and Dreatures
Parts of the Body
Birds
vocab
100

Animals that lack a backbone.

What are Invertebrates 

100

A body covering, typically made of chitin, that provides support and protection.

What is exoskeleton.

100

This organ controls the nervous system.

What is BRAIN.
100

down, contour, semi plumes, filoplumes and bristles are types of what on a bird?

What are feathers.

100

A structure that allows an embryo to be nourished by the mother's blood supply.

What is a placenta.

200
Animals that possess a backbone

What are vertebrates.

200

The organ of balance in a crustacean.

What is the statocyst.

200

This organ sends food to the stomach.

what is esophagus

200

These bird feathers have no hooked barbules.

What a down feathers.

200

blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart.

What are veins.

300
The end of an animal that contains its tail.

What is posterior end

300

The body of an insect is divided into what 3 body segments?

What is head, thorax, and abdomen.

300

This organ digests food.

What is intestine.

300

These feathers are used for flight.

What are contour feathers.

300

Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.

What are arteries.

400
What do sponges eat?

What are algae, bacteria, and organic matter in the water.

400
What are common characteristics of arachnids?

What are four pairs of walking legs, two segments in body, no antennae, book lungs, and four pairs of simple eyes.

400

This organ stores and breaks down food.

What is stomach.

400
The process of birds oiling their feathers, which hooks feather barbules back together and keeps them waterproof is called what?

What is preening.

400
To shed an old outer covering so that it can be replaced with a new one.

What is molting.

500

What is the difference between an open circulatory system and a closed circulatory system?

In an open circulatory system blood is pumped into chambers where it comes in direct contact with tissues and organs, however a closed circulatory system the blood stays in the vessels.

500

What 4 characteristics set insects apart from the other arthropods?

What are:

three pairs of walking legs

wings

3 segments in body

one pair of antennae.

500

This organ sends messages from the brain to other parts of the body and vice versa.

What is spinal cord.

500

Name 2 characteristics that set birds apart from other vertebrates.

What are: endothermic, heart with four chambers, toothless bill, oviparous, laying an amniotic egg, covered with feathers, and skeleton composed of porous lightweight bones.

500

An outer layers of cells designed to provide protection.

What is epidermis or SKIN!