invertebrate vocab

Question 1

Vertebrates

Answer 1

organisms which have an internal backbone

Question 2

Invertebrates

Answer 2

any animal that lacks a vertebral column

Question 3

Consumer

Answer 3

a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.

Question 4

Ganglion

Answer 4

soft, gel-like masses that often change size.

Question 5

Gut

Answer 5

The gut refers to your gastrointestinal

Question 6

Coelom

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Bilateral Symmetry

Answer 7

the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane.

Question 8

Radial Symmetry

Answer 8

symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower.
“starfish have a fivefold radial symmetry”

Question 9

Asymmetry

Answer 9

lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.
“there was an asymmetry between the right and left ears”

Question 10

Sponges

Answer 10

invertebrate animals

Question 11

Cnidarians

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Flatworms

Answer 12

any parasitic or free-living invertebrate of the phylum Platyhelminthes, including planarians, flukes, and tapeworms

Question 13

Roundworms

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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. They have a soft unsegmented body and live in aquatic or damp habitats, and most kinds have an external calcareous shell.

Question 15

Open circulatory system

Answer 15

Open circulatory systems are systems where blood, rather than being sealed tight in arteries and veins, suffuses the body and may be directly open to the environment at places such as the digestive tract. Open circulatory systems use hemolymph instead of blood.

Question 16

Closed circulatory system

Answer 16

A closed circulatory system is comprised of the heart that pumps blood into the vessels to reach the tissues and organs. The exchange of gases in the bloodstream occurs between smaller vessels (capillaries) and tissues.

Question 17

Annelid worms

Answer 17

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Annelidasegmented worms(Also: ringed worms) The annelids include earthworms, polychaete worms, and leeches. All members of the group are to some extent segmented, in other words, made up of segments that are formed by subdivisions that partially transect the body cavity. Segmentation is also called metamerism.

Question 18

Exoskeleton

Answer 18

Insects, spiders and shellfish are some of the invertebrates that have exoskeletons. The exoskeleton provides them with strength and support, as well as protecting the organs inside their bodies.

Question 19

Compound eye

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Most insects have compound eyes, which are curved arrays of microscopic lenses. Each tiny lens captures an individual image, and the mosquito’s brain puts all of the images together to achieve peripheral vision without the insect having to move its eyes or head.

Question 20

Antenna

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An antenna is a metallic structure that captures and/or transmits radio electromagnetic waves. Antennas come in all shapes and sizes from little ones that can be found on your roof to watch TV to really big ones that capture signals from satellites millions of miles away.

Question 21

Metamorphosis

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There are four types of metamorphosis (ametabolous, hemimetabolous, holometabolous, and hypermetamorphosis), each with different stages.

Question 22

Endoskeleton

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

Question 23

Water vascular system

Answer 23

water-vascular system. noun. : a system of vessels in echinoderms containing a circulating watery fluid that is used especially for the movement of tentacles and tube feet.