Animals Flashcards

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Homeostasis

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Keeping internal body conditions stable

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Adaptations

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Structures and behaviors that allow animals to preform their functions

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Vertebrates

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Animals with backbones

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Inverdabrate

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A animal without a backbone

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Tissue

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A large group of similar cells that work to gather to complete a specific function

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Organ

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Is made up by different tissues

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Radial symmetry

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An animal has this if a imaginary lines an be drawn through a central point to divide it into 2 mirror images

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Bitateral symmetry

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When only one line can be drawn through it into halves, that are mirror images

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Cnidarians

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Invertebrates that have stinging cells and take food into the central body cavity
EX: jellyfish corals

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Mollusks

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Invertebrates with soft unsegmented bodies that are often protected by a hard shell

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Arthropods

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Invertebrates that have harder outer covering, segmented bodies, and a pair of jointed appendages

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Exoskeleton

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Outer skeleton

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Echinoderm

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An invertebrate that has an internal skeleton and a system of fluid-filled tubes

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Exoskeleton

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An internal skeleton

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Fish

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A vertebrate that lives in water and uses fins to move

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Cartilage

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A tissue more flexible than bone

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Amphibian

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S vertebrate that is ectothermic and spends its early life in water and adult life on land

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reptile

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An ectothermic vertebrate that has scaly skin and lungs and lays eggs on land

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Bird

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And endothermic vertebrate that lays eggs and has feathers and a 4 chambered heart

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Mammals

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Endothermic vertebrates that have skin covered with fur or hair and a four-chambered heart

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Mammary glands

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Milk produced by organs

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Monotremes

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Lay eggs

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Marsupials

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Are born at an early stage of development, and remain to develop in a small pouch on the mothers body

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Placental mammmal

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Develops inside it mother until its body can function independently

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Chordate

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Have three characteristics

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Notochord

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A flexible cord that supports a chordate back

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Vertebrae

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A stack of many small bones

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Ectotherm

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An animal that produces little internal body heat

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Endotherm

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An animal that controls its own body heat