Getting and Digesting Food
Respiration and Circulation
Water Balance and Waste
Coordinating Bodily Activities
Amazing Trivia
100

T/F: Animals can make their own food.

False. They must get their food from other organisms.

100

T/F: Animals respire (take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide) in different ways.

TRUE!!

100
T/F: Some saltwater animals drink the seawater to replace the water they lose by osmosis.

True! This is true with bony fish.

100

T/F: Hormones are found in vertebrates only.

Faslarooo. They are found in both vertebrates and invertebrates.

100

T/F: Ms. Coeling has a cat that weighs 22 pounds.

True. He really does.

200

_________  _____________ is a way of getting food by straining it out of the water.

Filter feeding

200

During respiration, these two gases are exchanged.

Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide

200

Getting rid of wastes or substances that are not needed is called:

A) Extinction

B) Excretion

C) Excommunication

Excretion

200

Which system of the body is made up of glands that secrete hormones?

A) Respiratory

B) Circulatory

C) Endocrine

C) Endocrine

200

What month is Ms. Crowder's birthday?

February

300

What is the difference between and herbivore and a carnivore?

An herbivore eats only plants and a carnivore eats other animals.

300

Animals use ____________ to move materials from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.

diffusion

300

Animals that live in ______________ have too much water coming into their bodies.

freshwater

300

Messages that travel along nerve cells are called ______________.

impulses

300

T/F: Ms. Coeling had a pet snake named Rocky.

Very False.

400
How do animals get food (3 correct answers)?

A) Filter feeding

B) Consuming

C) Salivating

D) Feeding on Fluids

A, B, D

400

This system transports oxygen to cells and expels carbon dioxide from the body.

A) Skeletal system

B) Circulatory system

C) Digestive system

D) Endocrine system

B

400

What organ do freshwater fish use to get rid of the excess water that is entering their body all the time?

kidneys

400

T/F: Octopi can be taught to solve simple problems because they have the most highly developed nervous system of invertebrates.

Very TRUE!  

Hmmm... I wonder if they can solve for X!

400

Ms. Crowder has how many brothers? 

2

500

The process of breaking down food into small chemicals is called ________________.

digestion

500
What are the two types of circulatory systems in animals?

Open and Closed

500

This dangerous chemical waste, which is poisonous to cells, is excreted from the body in urine.

What is ammonia?

500

In vertebrates, the nervous system is divided into two parts; the _________________ and the _______________.

central nervous system and peripheral nervous system.

500

Mr. Park used to live and teach in what state?

Oregon