Animal Characteristics
Invertebrate phylums
Vertebrates
Vocabulary
Assorted
100
What is the difference between animals and protists?
What is animals are multicelled?
100
I have a hard shell and live in moist areas.
What is mollusks
100
Fishes use these to get oxygen from the water
What are gills
100
When body parts are arranged in a circle
What is radial symmetry
100
What is the simplest invertebrate
What is sponges
200
All animal cells are surrounded by
What is collagen protein
200
Many of these live in digestive tracts and they are covered by a cuticle.
What is roundworm
200
These animals have leathery eggs and scales.
What are reptiles
200
An animal with a backbone
What is a vertebrate
200
Both flatworms and roundworms have __ symmetry
What is bilateral
300
Approximately how many species of animals are there?
What is 1.5 million
300
These organisms have no organs but they do have tissues and tentacles.
What is cnidarians
300
The only feature unique only to birds is that they have __
What are feathers?
300
body parts arranged the same on both sides of the body
What is bilateral symmetry
300
Name three major groups of arthropods
What is spiders, insects, crustaceans.
400
What item are you comparing with the "molecular classification" of organisms?
What is DNA
400
The only group of invertebrates that are asymmetrical.
What is sponges
400
This class of animals derives their name from the glands they have that produce milk for their young.
What are mammals.
400
A type of jawless fish
What is lamprey OR hagfish
400
Name the five classes of vertebrates
What are fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals
500
Animals are consumers so they must all ____ their food.
What is digest
500
These organisms have spiny skin or hard plates and live in water.
What is echinoderm
500
Plant cells are specialized for photosynthesis. What are animal cells specialized for?
What is digestion
500
flexible tissue in the skeleton of sharks
What is cartilage
500
Name the five characteristics of all animals.
What is multi-celled, specialized cells, collagen protein around cells, consumers, digest food