Animal Kingdom

Question 1

Vertebrates

Answer 1

an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes

Question 2

Invertebrates

Answer 2

an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate, etc. The invertebrates constitute an artificial division of the animal kingdom, comprising 95 percent of animal species and about 30 different phyla.

Question 3

Consumer

Answer 3

a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.

Question 4

Ganglion

Answer 4

a structure containing a number of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.

Question 5

Gut

Answer 5

the stomach or belly.

Question 6

Coelom

Answer 6

the body cavity in metazoans, located between the intestinal canal and the body wall

Question 7

Bilateral Symmetry

Answer 7

the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane

Question 8

Radial Symmetry

Answer 8

symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower.

Question 9

Asymmetry

Answer 9

lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.

Question 10

Sponges

Answer 10

Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera, are a basal Metazoa clade as a sister of the Diploblasts.

Question 11

Cnidarians

Answer 11

an aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Cnidaria, which comprises the coelenterates.

Question 12

Flatworms

Answer 12

The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates

Question 13

Roundworms

Answer 13

The nematodes or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda. They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a broad range of environments.

Question 14

Mollusks

Answer 14

an invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses. They have a soft unsegmented body and live in aquatic or damp habitats, and most kinds have an external calcareous shell

Question 15

Open circulatory system

Answer 15

Open circulatory systems (evolved in crustaceans, insects, mollusks and other invertebrates) pump blood into a hemocoel with the blood diffusing back to the circulatory system between cells.

Question 16

Closed circulatory system

Answer 16

an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

Question 17

Annelid worms

Answer 17

The annelids, also known as the ringed worms or segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.

Question 18

Exoskeleton

Answer 18

a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.

Question 19

Compound eye

Answer 19

an eye consisting of an array of numerous small visual units, as found in insects and crustaceans.

Question 20

Antenna

Answer 20

A transmitter is a different kind of antenna that does the opposite job to a receiver:

Question 21

Metamorphosis

Answer 21

(in an insect or amphibian) the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages

Question 22

Endoskeleton

Answer 22

an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.

Question 23

Water vascular system

Answer 23

(in an echinoderm) a network of water vessels in the body, the tube feet being operated by hydraulic pressure within the vessels