Animals Flashcards
has a backbone
- Vertebrates
no backbone
- Invertebrates
a person or thing that eats or uses something.
- Consumer
a mass of nerve cells
- Ganglion
a digestive tract
- Gut
body cavity that contains internal organs
- Coelom
the two sides of its body mirror each other
- Bilateral Symmetry
body is organized around the center like the spokes of a wheel
- Radial Symmetry
its body is not organized around a center
- Asymmetry
water flows into a cavity in the body bringing in food and oxygen
- Sponges
sting and poison there prey
- Cnidarians
a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates
- Flatworms
a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a broad range of environments
- Roundworms
all have complex ganglia that control breathing movement and digestion
- Mollusks
is not contained in vessels
- Open circulatory system
contained in blood vessels
- Closed circulatory system
segmented worms
- Annelid worms
a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.
- Exoskeleton
an eye consisting of an array of numerous small visual units, as found in insects and crustaceans
- Compound eye
a usually metallic device for radiating or receiving radio waves a TV antenna.
- Antenna
a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one, by natural or supernatural means.
- Metamorphosis
an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
- Endoskeleton
a network of water vessels in the body, the tube feet being operated by hydraulic pressure within the vessels.
- Water vascular system
