Invertebrate Animal Vocabulary. Flashcards
Vertebrates
An animal with a backbone.
Invertebrates
An animal with no backbone.
Consumer
An animal that makes it own food.
Ganglion
Mass of nerve cells.
Gut
A digestive track.
Coelom
A body cavity that contains internal organs.
Bilateral Symmetry
The exact thing on each side on a body.
Radial Symmetry
A body that has a center to it.
Asymmetry
No symmetry at all.
Sponges
Animals that have made their bodies able to have water go through them.
Cnidarians
Animals that are found only in the water.
Flatworms
Soft-bodied, invertebrate, and unsegmented.
Roundworms
Soft-bodied and invertebrate.
Mollusks
They have a head with a brain and sense organs.
Open circulatory system
They pump blood into hemocoel with blood diffusing.