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Animal Kingdom Flashcards

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Phylum Arthropoda

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Joint footed animals. 5 kingdoms

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Animal kingdom

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Can move, can make own food

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Phylum Arthropoda classes (5)

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Crustaceans
Centipedes 
Millipedes 
Spiders
Insect
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Insect

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Most successful of all animals
3 parts-head, thorax, abdomen 
6 legs- all attached to the thorax
Exoskeleton- made of chitin
Usually four wings
Antennae
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Coleoptera

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Beatles

Have wing covers with a line down the middle. Largest group, 1/7 insects are Beatles

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Hemiptera

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Have wings that fold and firm a triangle

Ex. Stink bug

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Lepidoptera

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Butterfly’s and moths
Butterfly’s are colorful, fly during the day, and when resting the wings fold up
Moths are dark, fly during the night, and while resting wings are folded back

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Diptera

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Flies and mosquitoes

Only have 2 wings

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Hymenoptera

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Ants, bees, wasps
Have separated body parts
Social

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Metemorphosis

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A change of form

Almost all insects have a complete change of their bodies as they grow

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3 stages of metamorphoses

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Egg
Larva
Adult

Ex. Grasshopper

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4 stages of metamorphoses

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Egg
Larva
Pupa
Adult

Ex. Butterfly

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Social insects

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All live together
Have jobs
Give up their lives for the colony

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Queen

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Everything revolves around her

Only one that lays eggs

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Soldiers

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All female

Protect

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Workers

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All female
Gather food
Take care of babies

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Drones

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Male

Live until they breed with the queen

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Royal jelly

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Queens grow from larvae that are fed this special food. They then mate and start their life as egg layers

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Phylum Echinodermata

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All have rough skin and tube feet
Have pentardial symmetry

Ex. Sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sand dollars

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Tube feet

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Moved by a water system that pushes water in and pulls it out to move and have suction

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Phylum Cnidaria

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Has animals with stinging cells that are all carnivorous

Ex. Jellyfish, sea anemones, hydra, sea pens, coral

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Polyp

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Upside down jellyfish looking thing

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Medusa

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Jellyfish shape

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Asexually

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(W/out egg and sperm) hydras use budding. The bay grows off the side and breaks off

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Sexually

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Jelly fish give off eggs and sperm in the medusa stage. The young forms a polyp. As it grows into a new medusa form

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Phylum mollusca (largest group)

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Have a soft body sometimes with a shell

Ex. Clams, oysters, mussels, slugs, snails, octopus, limpets, abalone

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No shell

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Slugs
Squids
Octopus

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Univalves

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Snails
Limpets
Abalone

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Bivalves

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Mussels
Clams
Oysters

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