Invertebate animal vocab

Question 1

Vertebates

Answer 1

A Verebates is an animal that has a backbone.

Question 2

invertebate

Answer 2

an animal that does not have a backbone.

Question 3

consumer

Answer 3

an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter.

Question 4

Ganglion

Answer 4

a mass of nerve cells

Question 5

Gut

Answer 5

the digestive tract

Question 6

Coelom

Answer 6

a body cavity that contains the internal organs.

Question 7

Biateral

Answer 7

The two sides of its body mirror each other It has equal right and left sides most complex animals are squirrel.

Question 8

Radial

Answer 8

body is organized around the center, like the spokes of a wheel EX. sea star.

Question 9

Asymmetry

Answer 9

Its body is not organized around a center. Most simple animals ex. sponge

Question 10

Sponges

Answer 10

sponges, the members of the pylum porifefa, are a basal metazoa clade as a sister of the Diploblasts.

Question 11

cnidarians

Answer 11

cnidarians are more complex than sponges. Cnidarians have complex tissues and a gut for digesting food.

Question 12

Flatworms

Answer 12

All flatworms have bilateral symmetry. Many flatworms also have a clearly denfined head and two large eyesspots.

Question 13

roundworms

Answer 13

roundworms have bodies that are long, slim and round like spaghetti like other worms they have bilateral symmetry.

Question 14

Mollusks

Answer 14

snails,slugs,clams,oysters,squids, and octopuses are all molusks most of these animals live in the ocean but some live in fresh water and some live on land.

Question 15

open circulatory system

Answer 15

a circulatory system in which the circulatory fluid is not comtained entirely within vessels.

Question 16

closed circulatory system

Answer 16

a circulatory system in which the heart circulates blood through a network of blood vessels that form a closed loop.

Question 17

Annelid worms

Answer 17

annelid worms are often called segmented worms because their bodies have segments.

Question 18

Exoskeleton

Answer 18

a hard, external, supporting structure

Question 19

compound eye

Answer 19

an eye composed of many light detectors

Question 20

antenna

Answer 20

a feeler that is on the head of an invertebrate, such as a crustacean or an insect, that senses touch, taste or smell.

Question 21

Metamorphosis

Answer 21

a phase in the life cycle of many animals during which a rapid change from the immature form of an organism to the adult form takes place.

Question 22

endoskeleton

Answer 22

an internal skeleton made of bone or cartilage

Question 23

Water vascular system

Answer 23

a system of canals filled with a watery fluid that circulates throughout the body of an echinoderm.