vocab chapters 1-4

Question 1

species

Answer 1

A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce off springs.

Question 2

autotroph

Answer 2

An organism that makes its own food.

Question 3

adaptation

Answer 3

A characteristic that helps and organism survive its environment.

Question 4

carnivore

Answer 4

Animals that eat other animals.

Question 5

phylum

Answer 5

Major group biologists classify organisms into.

Question 6

vertebrate

Answer 6

Animal that has a back bone.

Question 7

heterotroph

Answer 7

An organism that can’t make its own food.

Question 8

sexual reproduction

Answer 8

Creating a new organism from the joining of two cell male and female chactistics from both

Question 9

budding

Answer 9

A way to reproduce by the larva sticking to the parent then breaking off.

Question 10

Omnivore

Answer 10

Eat both animals and plants.

Question 11

Invertebrate

Answer 11

An animal that doesn’t have a back bone.

Question 12

Cnidarian

Answer 12

Phylum containing animals that have stinging cells .

Question 13

polyp

Answer 13

Shaped like vase with mouth at top!

Question 14

Medusa

Answer 14

Free swimming cnidarian with mouth open downward.

Question 15

reef

Answer 15

Contains the bodies of thousands of coral polyps, which build up on each other.

Question 16

asymmetry

Answer 16

When it is no symmetrical.

Question 17

radial symmetry

Answer 17

Many lines go through the center point.

Question 18

Bilateral symmetry

Answer 18

The object can be divided into a half so the other side is mirror.

Question 19

regeneration

Answer 19

How an organism can regrow a certain part of its body if it gets cut off.

Question 20

parasite

Answer 20

An organism that lives inside another organism.

Question 21

planarian

Answer 21

A planarian is a non parasitic flat worm.

Question 22

host

Answer 22

The organism that the parasite lives in or on.