Science flashcards

Question 1

Vertebrates

Answer 1

An animal that has a backbone.

Question 2

Invertebrates

Answer 2

An animal that does not have a backbone.

Question 3

Consumer

Answer 3

An animal that feeds off of other animals.

Question 4

Ganglion

Answer 4

A collection of neuronal bodies found in the voluntary and autonomic branches of the peripheral nervous system (PNS).

Question 5

Gut

Answer 5

Converts food into energy.

Question 6

Coelom

Answer 6

Surrounds and contains the digestive tract and other organs.

Question 7

Bilateral Symmetry

Answer 7

When an organism has a left and a right.

Question 8

Radial Symmetry

Answer 8

Interacts all directions no lefts and rights.

Question 9

Asymmetry

Answer 9

The sides look different not identical.

Question 10

Sponges

Answer 10

Sessile metazoans (multi celled immobile animals) that have water intake and outlet openings connected by chambers lined with choanocytes, cells with whip-like flagella.

Question 11

Cnidarians

Answer 11

radial symmetry and self body stinging creatures.

Question 12

Flatworms

Answer 12

soft bodied invertebrates that 80 percent are parasitic.

Question 13

Roundworms

Answer 13

Bilaterally symmetrical, worm-like organisms that are surrounded by a strong, flexible noncellular layer called a cuticle.

Question 14

Mollusks

Answer 14

Any soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, usually wholly or partly enclosed in a calcium carbonate shell secreted by a soft mantle covering the body.

Question 15

Open circulatory system

Answer 15

pumps blood into a cavity called a hemocoel where it surrounds the organs and then returns to the heart(s) through ostia (openings).

Question 16

Closed circulatory system

Answer 16

the blood stays within blood vessels

Question 17

Annelid worms

Answer 17

segmented worms such as earthworms and leeches.

Question 18

Exoskeleton

Answer 18

a hard covering that supports and protects the bodies of some types of animals.

Question 19

Compound Eye

Answer 19

a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans.

Question 20

Antenna

Answer 20

are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods

Question 21

Metamorphs

Answer 21

An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.

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 hydraulic system used by echinoderms, such as sea stars and sea urchins, for locomotion, food and waste transportation, and respiration.