What are animals
Invertebrates
Chordates
Vocab
Animal Categories
100

Are animals unicellular or multicellular? 

All animals are multicellular

100

What do all invertebrates have in common? 

They have no backbone

100

What are the vertebrates that fall into the chordate category? List three

Fish, mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians 

100

Body plans which cannot be divided into any two parts that are nearly mirror images?

Asymmetry

100

What do fish use to breathe?

Gills 

200

What is the difference between bilateral symmetry and radial symmetry?

Bilateral symmetry is when an organism can be divided into two parts that nearly mirror images of each other

Radial symmetry is when a thing can be divided into mirror images from a central axis (circle)

200

What is an animal that has tiny stiff fibers that support their bodies 

Sponges

200

Give an example of an amphibian 

Frog, newt, salamander, toad

200

What is a parasite?

Animals that survive by living inside or on another organism for food

200

Give an example of an invertebrate.

Sponge

Worm

Cnidarians

Parasites

 

300

What is the study of how animals are organized? 

Taxonomy

300

How are arthropods and arachnids different? 

Arthropods have three body segments 

Arachnids have two body segments  

300

What is the difference between endotherm and an ectotherm?

Endotherms are warm-blooded

Ectotherms are cold-blooded. 

300

What is a fluid-filled internal cavity surrounded by muscle tissue? 

Hydrostatic skeleton

300

Give one characteristic of a bird

Warm blooded

Feathers

Fly

400

What is the difference between an exoskeleton and an endoskeleton? 

An exoskeleton is on the outside of an animal and can be seen as a shell

An endoskeleton is on the inside and is made of bone. 

400

What is it called when an animal changes as it grows from an egg to an adult 

metamorphosis 

400

What four things do all chordates have?

Nerve cord, notochord, tail, and pharyngeal pouches 

400

What is a protective membrane that surrounds the embryo 

amnion

400

How are a reptile and an amphibian different? 

Reptiles do not need moisture to survive like an amphibian does 

500

What are three types of adaptations animals can have?

Behavioral, functional, and structural 

500

What are the three body segments all arthropods have?

Head, thorax, abdomen 

500

What are the three types of fish?

Jawless fish, sharks/rays, bony fish

500

What is it when an outer covering is shed and replaced

Molting 

500

What three things does an animal need to have to be a mammal?

Live birth

Fur

Produce milk