Animals Flashcards
Homeostasis
Keeping internal body conditions stable
Adaptations
Structures and behaviors that allow animals to preform their functions
Vertebrates
Animals with backbones
Inverdabrate
A animal without a backbone
Tissue
A large group of similar cells that work to gather to complete a specific function
Organ
Is made up by different tissues
Radial symmetry
An animal has this if a imaginary lines an be drawn through a central point to divide it into 2 mirror images
Bitateral symmetry
When only one line can be drawn through it into halves, that are mirror images
Cnidarians
Invertebrates that have stinging cells and take food into the central body cavity
EX: jellyfish corals
Mollusks
Invertebrates with soft unsegmented bodies that are often protected by a hard shell
Arthropods
Invertebrates that have harder outer covering, segmented bodies, and a pair of jointed appendages
Exoskeleton
Outer skeleton
Echinoderm
An invertebrate that has an internal skeleton and a system of fluid-filled tubes
Exoskeleton
An internal skeleton
Fish
A vertebrate that lives in water and uses fins to move