Invertebrate Animals Vocabulary

Question 1

Vertebrates

Answer 1

An animal that has a backbone.

Question 2

Invertebrate

Answer 2

An animal that doesn’t 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

Bilateral Symmetry

Answer 7

When a part of the body mirrors the other side.

Question 8

Radial Symmetry

Answer 8

It’s body is organized around the center,like spokes on a wheel.

Question 9

Asymmetry

Answer 9

You can’t draw a straight line to divide it body into two or more equal parts.Its body isn’t organized around a center.

Question 10

Sponges

Answer 10

An Asymmetrical simple vertebrate with no guts,tissues,or neurons.

Question 11

Cnidarians

Answer 11

Invertebrate with stingers is classified as - Cnidarians.

Question 12

Flatworms

Answer 12

Most simple worms with bilateral symmetry.

Question 13

Roundworms

Answer 13

Bilaterally Symmetric and have simple nervous systems.

Question 14

Mollusks

Answer 14

Mostly living in the Ocean,these things it into three categories, Gastropods,Bivalves, and the Cephalopods.

Question 15

Open Circulatory System.

Answer 15

A circulatory system in which the circulatory fluid is not contained 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

SOmetimes called segmented worms with an identical, almost repeating body.

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

(In an insect or amphibian) the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in tow or ore 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

(In an echinoderm) A network of water vessels in the body, the tube feet being operated by hydraulic pressure within the vessels.