Vertebrates
What are vertebrates?
Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone and a skeleton.
What are invertebrates?
Invertebrates are animals that don't have a backbone.
What are oviparous animals?
Oviparous animals are animals that ley eggs.
What is a consumer?
A consumer is a living thing that obtains energy by eating other living things.
Sponges have complex digestive systems.
False, sponges have no organs.
What are the five types of vertebrates?
What are the types of the invertebrates?
Arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms, sponges, annelids and cnidarians.
What are viviparous animals?
Viviparous animals are animals that give birth to live offspring.
What are the three types of consumers?
Starfish are cnidarians.
False, starfish are echinoderms.
What do herbivores eat?
Herbivores eat plants.
What is the largest group of invertebrates?
The largest group of invertebrates are arthropods.
What are ovoviparous animals?
Oviviparous animals are animals that produce eggs, but the eggs hatch inside the mother and she gives birth to live offspring.
Name 6 ruminants.
Goats, giraffes, deer, camels, sheep, and cows.
Arachnids have four pairs of legs and eight eyes.
True.
What do carnivores eat?
Carnivores eat meat.
What type of invertebrate has a soft body and a hard shell?
Molluscs have soft bodies and hard shells.
What type of animals are viviparous?
Almost all mammals are viviparous.
What animals live in water but breathe with their lungs?
Dolphins and turtles.
Rumiants have simple digestive systems.
False, they have complex digestive systems. They digest grass, then the grass returns to the mouth, the animal chews it again and swallows it again.
What do omnivores eat?
Omnivores eat plants and meat.
Name the body parts of insects.
The insect has three body parts: a head, a thorax and an abdomen.
What types of animals are oviparous?
Birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians are oviparous animals.
How are fish and amphibians different?
Some snakes and sharks are oviviparous animals.
True.