Definitions

Question 1

Agnatha

Answer 1

JAWLESS FISH with an internal skeleton made of cartilage, lampreys and hagfish are examples

Question 2

Amphibians

Answer 2

Chordates that live both in and out of water.

Question 3

Annelids

Answer 3

Phylum of the animal kingdom consisting of the segmented worms, such ads leeches and earthworms.

Question 4

Arthropods

Answer 4

Animals with an exoskeleton and joined limbs, such as crabs and insects.

Question 5

Aves

Answer 5

Animals with feathers covering their body, lay hard shelled eggs and are endothermic.

Question 6

Cartilage

Answer 6

Flexible material from which the skeletons of Agnatha and Chondrichthyes are made.

Question 7

Cells

Answer 7

The building blocks of all living things.

Question 8

Chondrichthyes

Answer 8

Fish with proper jaws and teeth, skeleton made of cartilage and fins on the sides of their bodies as well as along their backs. Such as sharks and rays.

Question 9

Class

Answer 9

The level under phylum in the classification of living things

Question 10

Chordates

Answer 10

Animals with a nerve chord running down their backs, and a endoskeleton.

Question 11

Classification

Answer 11

The process of putting things into groups

Question 12

Cnidarians

Answer 12

Animals with radial symmetry, one body opening and stinging cells. Such as jellyfish,sea anemone and coral polyps.

Question 13

Conifers

Answer 13

Plants that bear their seeds on cones and have male and female cones on the same tree, such as cypress, fir and hoop pine.

Question 14

Cycads

Answer 14

Plants that bear their seeds in cones and have male and female cones on seperate plants

Question 15

Decomposers

Answer 15

Organisms that get the energy they need from breaking down dead matter and waste products.

Question 16

Dichotomies key

Answer 16

A key with two choices at the end of each stage

Question 17

Division

Answer 17

The level below kingdom in the classification of plants

Question 18

Echinoderm

Answer 18

Radially symmetrical animals. Examples, starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers.

Question 19

Ectothermic

Answer 19

Animals with a body temperature that varies with the temperature of surroundings

Question 20

Endoskeleton

Answer 20

A skeleton inside the body

Question 21

Endothermic

Answer 21

Animals with a body temperature controlled internally

Question 22

Exoskeleton

Answer 22

A skeleton on the outside of the body.

Question 23

Family

Answer 23

The level in the classification system below order and above genus

Question 24

Ferns

Answer 24

Plants that reproduce using spores and have a vascular system for transporting food and water throughout the plant.

Question 25

Flowering plants

Answer 25

Plants that produce seeds fully protected inside an ovary.

Question 26

Fungi

Answer 26

One of the five kingdoms of living things , multicellular or unicellular organisms with a cell wall as the outer covering and a distinct nucleus.

Question 27

Genus

Answer 27

The level in the classification system bellow family and above species.

Question 28

Ginkgo

Answer 28

Trees with seperate male and female plants.pollen is produced in cones. The female tree produces fleshy coated seeds.

Question 29

Invertebrates

Answer 29

Animals without backbones

Question 30

Kingdom

Answer 30

The first level of classification

Question 31

Liverworts

Answer 31

Plants with no vascular tissue which reproduce using spores

Question 32

Macroscopic

Answer 32

Able to be seen without the help of a microscope

Question 33

Mammals

Answer 33

A class that includes all the animals that have a body covering of hair and feed their babies on milk produced by the mother.

Question 34

Microscopic

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Cannot be seen without the help of a microscope.

Question 35

Molluscs

Answer 35

Phylum of animals that are bilaterally symmetrical, have well developed internal organs and have a muscular foot which they use to move along

Question 36

Monera

Answer 36

One of the five kingdoms of living things;single celled organisms without a distinct nucleus

Question 37

Mosses

Answer 37

Plants with no vascular tissue that reproduce using spores.

Question 38

Multicellular

Answer 38

Made of many cells.

Question 39

Nematodes

Answer 39

Phylum of the animal kingdom consisting of round worms

Question 40

Order

Answer 40

The level in the classification system bellow class and above order.

Question 41

Osteichthyes

Answer 41

The bony fish for example barramundi tuna, eels, sea horse and lungfish

Question 42

Parasite

Answer 42

Organisms that live on or in another organism called a host., the hostage get noting in return and may be harmed

Question 43

Pest species

Answer 43

An animal species that causes problems and is not wanted in an area.

Question 44

Phylum

Answer 44

The second level of classification of living things, below kingdom and above class.

Question 45

Plant

Answer 45

One of the five kingdoms of living things multicellular organisms with a cellulose cell wall as the outer layer and a distinct nucleus

Question 46

Platyhelminthes

Answer 46

Phylum of the animal kingdom consisting of flatworms.

Question 47

Poriferans

Answer 47

Phylum of the animal kingdom consisting of the sponges.

Question 48

Reptiles

Answer 48

Animals with scales covering the body, ectotherms most of which lay leathery shelled eggs.

Question 49

Seed producing plants

Answer 49

Plants that reproduced using seeds

Question 50

Species

Answer 50

The last level of classification of living things

Question 51

Taxonomy

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The science of grouping and naming things

Question 52

Taxononimist

Answer 52

A scientist who specialises in grouping and naming things.,

Question 53

Unicellular

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Made of only one cell

Question 54

Vascular system

Answer 54

System of hollow tubes or vessels which transport water and nutrients around an organism

Question 55

Vertebrates

Answer 55

Animals with backbones

Question 56

Weed

Answer 56

A group name for any plant growing where it does not belong.