Classification
Phylum
Animal Behavior
Terms
Misc.
100
The way scientists put organisms into groups.
What is taxonomy?
100
Which phylum are flatworms grouped in?
What is phylum Platyhelminthes?
100
Define imprinting.
What is a critical period in animal's life that affects their development such birds who accept any moving thing as their mother. It is vital for the mothers to be their first.
100
What are plasmids?
What is a circular piece of DNA?
100
What is binomial nomenclature?
What is the method of naming an animal using the genus and species.
200
The four methods of nutrition for monerans.
What is chemotroph, photoautotroph, heterotrop, autotroph.
200
Which phylum are starfish in?
What is phylum echinodermata?
200
Define associative leaning.
What is when an animal learns that two events are connected.
200
Define altruism.
What is an unselfish deed done for another animal.
200
List the three domains.
What is eukarya, prokarya, and archaea.
300
The three groups of archaebacteria.
What is methanogens, halophiles, thermoacidophiles.
300
In which phylum do squids belong in?
What is phylum mollusca?
300
Defin a fixed action pattern.
What is an innate response to specific stimuli in a pattern.
300
Define a dominance hierarchy?
What is the strongest and most fit animal has power.
300
What are the characteristics of organisms in kingdom protista?
What is not belonging in any group because of no evolutionary traits. Being animallike, plantlike, funguslike, unicellular, and multicellular.
400
The three ways fungi reproduce.
What is fragmentation, budding, and asexual spores.
400
Which phylum are crustaceans grouped in?
What is phylum anthropoda?
400
Define insight.
What is when an animal succeeds without prior knowledge in a new situation.
400
Define eumetezoa?
What are tissue layers called germ layers.
400
Define bilateral symmetry.
What is being symmetrical vertically from the middle (such as humans)
500
Define pseudocoelomates, coelomates, and acoelomates.
What is pseudocoelomates have a body cavity that isn't completely lined with a mesoderm. Coelomates have a lined mesoderm. Acoelomates don't have a cavity.
500
Which phylum are filter feeders placed in?
What is phylum rotifera?
500
Explain and give the three types of animal movement.
What is kinesis(change in speed in response to stimulus), taxis(moving away or toward stimuli), and migration (moving seasonally to better food or mating condidtions).
500
Define a protostome.
What is an animal in which the mouth develops first during pregnancy.
500
Define cephalization.
What is having an abundance of nervous tissue in the head are, meaning that this organism usually has a brain.