Science Intro To Animals Test Review.

Question 1

what is Taxonomy

Answer 1

Scientific classification of organisms.

Question 2

What are the levels of taxonomical classification

Answer 2

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

Question 3

What are the levels of human Taxonomy

Answer 3

Animal, Chordata, Mammal, Primate, Hominid, Homo, Homo sapiens.

Question 4

What is the phylum of the animal kingdom

Answer 4

(Humans-Chordata) (Arthropods-Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans.) (Annelids-Segmented Worms.)

Question 5

Kingdoms Of Living Things

Answer 5

Animals/Plants/Protists/Fungi/Bacteria.

Question 6

Benthos

Answer 6

Animals Underwater or on/in the bottom.

Question 7

Sessile

Answer 7

Fixed/attached to one location.

Question 8

Hermaphrodite

Answer 8

an organism having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics.

Question 9

Detritus

Answer 9

dead or decaying organic material.

Question 10

Medusa

Answer 10

Free Swimming jellyfish

Question 11

Polyp

Answer 11

Attached jellyfish

Question 12

Producer

Answer 12

An organism that can make its own food.

Question 13

Decomposer

Answer 13

Breaks down waste and dead organisms and returns the raw materials to the ecosystem.

Question 14

Herbivore

Answer 14

an organism that only consumes plants

Question 15

Carnivore

Answer 15

an organism that only consumes meat

Question 16

Scavenger

Answer 16

carnivores that feed on dead organisms.

Question 17

Omnivore

Answer 17

an organism that eats both plants and animals.

Question 18

Parasite

Answer 18

An organism that relies on another organism or its “host” for food and a place to live.

Question 19

Host

Answer 19

an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives.

Question 20

Vertebrate

Answer 20

an organism with a backbone

Question 21

Invertebrate

Answer 21

an organism without a backbone.

Question 22

what is bilateral symmetry

Answer 22

if you cut something in half it is the same on both sides.

Question 23

what is radial symmetry

Answer 23

you can split it into more than 2 excess and all are the same.

Question 24

what is asymmetry

Answer 24

it cannot be split equally among any amount of pieces.

Question 25

sexual reproduction.

Answer 25

the production of new living organisms by combining genetic information from two individuals of different types

Question 26

asexual reproduction

Answer 26

Asexual reproduction is a mode of reproduction in which a new offspring is produced by a single parent.

Question 27

food pyramid

Answer 27

a graphic representation of predatory relationships in the food chain, in which various forms of life are shown on different levels, with each level preying on the one below it.

Question 28

Food Web

Answer 28

A system of interlocking food pyramids.