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How do Animal Get/Digest Food?
How do Animals Respire and Transport Materials?
How do Animals Maintain Water Balance/Eliminate Waste?
How do Animals coordinate their Bodily Activities?
Vocabulary
100
Getting food by straining it out of the water? Example?
Filter Feeding
100
Diffusion is the movement of materials from a ____________ concentration to a ____________ concentration.
High / low
100
Define Excrete
To get rid of waste
100
The brain and spinal cord make up the?
Central Nervous System
100
Digestive Tract
A tube-like digestive space with an opening at each end.
200
What kind of teeth do carnivores have? Herbivores? Why?
Carnivores = Sharp, tear through meat Herbivores = flat, only eat plants, to grind up plants
200
Respire: Take in __________ and give off __________________.
Take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide
200
Flame Cell?
A cell that collects excess water in a flatworm.
200
A chemical signal that a nerve cell releases?
Neurotransmitter
200
Excrete
Get rid of unwanted substances and waste
300
What do animals release to break down their food?
Digestive Enzymes
300
In a mammals heart, blood flows from the left atrium, to the? Also, what does atrium and ventricle mean?
Left ventricle. Ventricle: pumps blood out Atrium: pumps blood in
300
What is a nerve net? Name an example that his this simple nervous system.
A bunch of nerve cells hat are loosely connected. Cnidarians such as hydras
300
Hormone
A chemical signal that glands produce
400
What is gastrovascular cavity? Example?
A digestive space with a single opening, flatworm
400
Tell the difference between an open and closed circulatory system?
closed: a system in which blood stays inside vessels at all times open: a system in which blood makes direct contact with cells.
400
Kidney
An organ of excretion found in vertebrates
400
The largest part of the brain that controls thought, memory, learning, feeling, and body movement.
Cerebrum
400
Impulse
A message that a nerve cell carries.
500
What do birds have in their digestive tract that humans don't? What are their functions?
Crop: where food is stored Gizzard: grind their food into paste
500
What does circulatory mean? Tell me the entire path blood takes in the circulatory system.
Circulatory: flowing in a circle left atrium, left ventricle, rest of body, right atrium, right ventricle, lungs.
500
Why do mammals produce urine?
maintains water balance, removes dangerous wastes from the body.
500
Draw me an example of how the nervous system works
Nerve cell, impulse, neurotransmitter, nerve cell
500
Peripheral nervous system
the nerves that send messages between the CNS and other body parts