animal kingdom Flashcards

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vertabrates

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a vertabrate is an animal that has a backbone.

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invertebrates

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an animal with no backbone

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consumer

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an organisms that eats either organisms or organic matter

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ganglion

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a mass of nerve cells

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gut

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a digestive track

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coelom

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body cavity that contains internal organs.

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bilateral symmetry

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the 2 sides of its body mirror eachother

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radial symetry

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body is organised around the center like the spikes of a wheel.

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asymetry

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its body is not organised around the center

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sponges

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they are the simplest invertabrates they are asmetrical have no tissues and no gut or neurons.

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cnidarians

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vertebrates that have stinging cells

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flatworms

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type of worm to tiny to see without a microscope.

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roundworms

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have bodies that are long and slim like spagehetti and have bilateral symetry

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mollusks

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fit into tree classes, gastropods bivalves, and cephhalopods

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open circulatory system

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a system in whitch the circulartory fluid is not contained entierly within vessles

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closed circulatory system

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a system in whitch the heart circulates blood threw a network of blood vessles that form a closed loop.

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annelids worms

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often called segmented worms because there bodies have segments

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exoskeleton

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a hard external supporting structure

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compound eye

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an eye composed of many light detectors

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antenna

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a feeler that is on the head of an crustacean or an insect that senses touch ,taste and smell

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metamorphisis

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a phase in the life cycle of many animals during whitch rapid change from the immature form of an organnism to the adult form takes place

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endoskeleton

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an internal skeleton

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water vascular system

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