Animal Kingdom../. Flashcards
An animal that has a backbone
Vertebrate
An animal that has no backbone
Invertebrate
AN organism that eats other organisms or organic matter.
Consumer
A mass of nerve cells.
Ganglion
The digestive tract.
Gut
A body cavity that contains the internal organs.
Coelom
The two sides of its body mirror each other.
Bilateral Symmetry
Body is organized aroun the center lije the spokes of a wheel.
Radial Symmetry
Its a body not organized around a center
Asymmetry
a simple aquatic animals with dense
Sponges
radially symmetrical soft bodies animals
Cnidarians
any of a phylum of simple worms lack a body cavity.
Flatworms
a parasitic worm that comprse the phylum
Roundworms
a phylum mollusca usually wholly of partly enclosed in a calclum.
Mollusks
A circulatory system in which the circularty fluid not contained entirely with vessels
Open Circulatory System
a circulartory system in which the heart circulates blodd through a network of blood vessels that form a closed loop.
Closed Circulatory System
sqqmented worms with a tubular body and a speciallized digestive system with a terminal mouth and an anus
Annelid Worms
rigid articulated envelope that supports and protects the soft tissues of certian animals
Exoskeleton
An eye cmosed of many light detectors
Compound eye
A feeler that is on the head of an invertebrate such as a crustacean or an insect that sensed touch tase or smell.
Antenna
a phase in the life cycle of many animals during which a rapid change from the immuture.
Metamorphosis
an interna skeloten or supporting framwork in an animal
Endoskeleton
a sytem of canals filled wit a water sluid that circulated throughout the body.
Water Vascular System