Animal Kingdom Notes

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

any organism that can’t make its own food and Consumers have to feed on producers or other consumers to survive.

Question 4

Ganglion

Answer 4

A ganglion is a collection of neuronal bodies found in the voluntary and autonomic branches of the peripheral nervous system

Question 5

Gut

Answer 5

The gut is another term for the gastrointestinal tract.

Question 6

Coelom

Answer 6

the fluid-filled body cavity present between the alimentary 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

plant and animal symmetry in which similar parts are arranged in a balanced way around the center of the body compare bilateral symmetry.

Question 9

Asymmetry

Answer 9

Asymmetry is the absence of, or a violation of, symmetry the property of an object being invariant to a transformation, such as reflection.

Question 10

Sponges

Answer 10

Any of numerous aquatic, chiefly marine invertebrate animals of the phylum Porifera.

Question 11

Cnidarians

Answer 11

any member of the phylum Cnidaria (Coelenterata), a group made up of more than 9,000 living species.

Question 12

Flatworms

Answer 12

a group of soft-bodied, usually much flattened invertebrates.

Question 13

Roundworms

Answer 13

parasitic worms that comprise the phylum nematoda

Question 14

Mollusks

Answer 14

soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, usually wholly or partly enclosed in a calcium carbonate shell secreted by a soft mantle covering the body.

Question 15

Open circulatory system

Answer 15

the blood is not enclosed in the blood vessels and is pumped into a cavity called hemocoel.

Question 16

Closed circulatory system

Answer 16

blood is contained inside blood vessels and circulates unidirectional from the heart around the systemic circulatory route, then returns to the heart again.

Question 17

Annelid worms

Answer 17

annelid, phylum name Annelids, also called segmented worm, any member of a phylum of invertebrate animals that are characterized by the possession of a body cavity

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 hundreds or thousands of tiny light-sensitive parts called idiomatic

Question 20

Antenna

Answer 20

one of a pair of slender, movable, segmented sensory organs on the head of insects, myriads, and crustaceans see insect illustration.

Question 21

Metamorphosis

Answer 21

striking change of form or structure in an individual after hatching or birth.

Question 22

Exoskeleton

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Open circulatory system

Answer 23

the blood is not enclosed in the blood vessels and is pumped into a cavity called hemlock.