Animal Kingdom Flashcards
What is plankton
Plankton is found in the ocean and is it a very important component of the oceans food web
What is a Protozoa Phylum
Protist phylum belong to the plant kingdom rather than the animal kingdom are unicellular and aquatic
What is the protist phylum
Can cause diseases in humans such as malaria and African sleeping sickness some common examples of protists are the plasmodium and trypanosoma
What is the porifera phylum
Contains colorful aquatic animals such as sponges
What are sponges
Once believed to be a plant because they cannot move attach themselves to rocks and remove micro organisms such as plankton from water by a process called filter feeding their body contains numerous holes or pours through which water enters and exits
Filter feeding
Removing organisms such as plankton from water
Pore bearing
Porifera
Coelenterate phylum
Often called cniderian phylum can be as small as to mm or as large as two m have tentacles and are more complex than sponges and represent an important step in evolution they contain a digestive also possess nerves and sense receptors ex jellyfish
Tentacles
They are covered with stinging cells that can paralyze their prey
Digestive cavity
A place where pray is thoroughly broken apart after eating found in cniderian phylum (coelenterate)
Platyhelminthes phylum
Flatworm phylum bilateral symmetry and have few advanced organ systems planaria tapeworms flukes
Bilateral symmetry
Organism divided into equivalent halves have head an tail
Organ system
Several organs working together to preform function
Aschelminthes phylum
Roundworm phylum first to evolve coelom parasites that are pathogenic ascaris pinworms hookworms trichina
Roundworm phylum
Aschelminthes phylum