Feast or Famine: Animal Appetites
eats mainly insects
insectivore
An ____has three body segments and three pairs of legs.
insect
Animals such as earthworms are classified as ____ because they have segments and move by using setae.
annelids
Amphibians, fish, and reptiles are _______animals.
cold-blooded
Birds and mammals are
warm blooded
eats both plants and animals
omnivore
An arthropod with two body segments and eight legs is an _______.
arachnid .
Shrimp and spiders are both considered to be ____ because they have jointed legs, a segmented body, and an exoskeleton.
arthropods
Jesse found a sea star at the beach. He knew it was ____ because it had radial symmetry and tube feet.
an echinoderm
Vertebrates can grow larger than invertebrates because they ______
Vertebrates can grow larger than invertebrates because they have an internal skeleton (endoskeleton) that supports their body structure.
eats other animals
carnivore
An arthropod with five pairs of legs and a claw is a
crustacean
Name the stages of incomplete metamorphosis
egg, nymph, and adult.
Even though they look different, both an octopus and an oyster are ____because they have a soft body and a mantle.
mollusks
Name two mammals that use echolocation. Explain echolocation.
Bats & Dolphins; Echolocation works by using sound waves at a high frequency that we can't hear. When an animal like a bat or dolphin makes a sound, the sound travels through the air or water and hits objects. The sound bounces back, and by listening to how fast or slow the sound returns, the animal can figure out where the object is and what it is, based on the frequency of the returning sound waves. Higher frequency sounds bounce off smaller objects, helping them detect things like insects or fish!
eats plants only
herbivore
A ________has many body segments and many legs.
centipede
Why can some ticks cause serious human health problems?
Ticks are parasitic and use both animals and humans as hosts. Their bites can spread diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease.
A(n) ____ gets its food from water that flows through its body.
Sponge
Dolphins and whales, which are warm-blooded, have _______ to help them keep their bodies insolated in the cold water. Why would cold-blooded animals have difficulty surviving in polar regions?
Blubber;
Cold-blooded animals depend on the environment for warmth. Polar regions are cold environments.
Cold-blooded animals could not keep enough body warmth to survive in continuously cold conditions.
There are four main types of eating behaviors among animals. Name each type and provide an example of an animal for each one.
carnivore
herbivore
insectivore
omnivore
This group of arthropods has more species than any other group on Earth,
Insects
Draw and label complete metamorphosis of a butterfly (name all 4 stages)
.
Animals that eat organisms that float through the water are called_____.
Give three examples
Filter Feeders
Baleen Whale
Oyster
Coral
Some sharks
Name the five classes of vertebrates. Give 1 unique characteristic of each.