Invertebrate Animal Vocabulary

Question 1

Vertebrates

Answer 1

an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes

Question 2

Invertebrates

Answer 2

an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate, etc.

Question 3

Consumer

Answer 3

A consumer is a person or a group who intends to order, orders, or uses purchased goods, products, or services primarily for personal, social, family, household and similar needs.

Question 4

Ganglion

Answer 4

A ganglion is a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system.

Question 5

Gut

Answer 5

the stomach or belly

Question 6

Coelom

Answer 6

the body cavity in metazoans, located between the intestinal canal and the body wall.

Question 7

Bilateral Symmetry

Answer 7

symmetry in which similar anatomical parts are arranged on opposite sides of a median axis so that only one plane .

Question 8

Radial Symmetry

Answer 8

Radial symmetry is a symmetry in which the sides exhibit correspondence or regularity of parts around a central axis. It is lacking left and right sides.

Question 9

Asymmetry

Answer 9

lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.

Question 10

Sponges

Answer 10

a primitive sedentary aquatic invertebrate with a soft porous body that is typically supported by a framework of fibers or calcareous or glassy spicules.

Question 11

Cnidarians

Answer 11

an aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Cnidaria, which comprises the coelenterates.

Question 12

Flatworms

Answer 12

a worm of a phylum which includes the planarians together with the parasitic flukes and tapeworms.

Question 13

Roundworms

Answer 13

a nematode, especially a parasitic one found in the intestines of mammals.

Question 14

Mollusks

Answer 14

an invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses.

Question 15

Open circulatory system

Answer 15

An open circulatory system describes a system where blood and interstitial fluid are allowed to mix in an organism.

Question 16

Closed circulatory system

Answer 16

Closed circulatory systems (evolved in echinoderms and vertebrates) have the blood closed at all times within vessels of different size and wall thickness.

Question 17

Annelid worms

Answer 17

The annelids, also known as the ringed worms or segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.

Question 18

Exoskeleton

Answer 18

exoskeleton, rigid or articulated envelope that supports and protects the soft tissues of certain animals.

Question 19

Compound eye

Answer 19

a stroke caused by small infarctions resulting from obstruction of small arterioles branching directly off large vessels in the brain.///////////////

Question 20

Antenna

Answer 20

either of a pair of long, thin sensory appendages on the heads of insects, crustaceans, and some other arthropods.

Question 21

Metamorphosis

Answer 21

(in an insect or amphibian) the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.

Question 22

Endoskeleton

Answer 22

an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.

Question 23

Water vascular system

Answer 23

a system of canals in echinoderms containing a circulating watery fluid that is used for the movement of the tentacles and tube feet.