Animal Kingdom Flashcards
Vertebrate
An animal with a backbone
Invertebrate
An animal without a backbone
Consumer
An organism that eats other organisms or organic matter
Ganglion
A structure containing a number of nerve cell bodies
Gut
The stomach
Coelom
The body cavity between the intestinal canal and the body wall
Bilateral Symmetry
The property of being divisible into two symmetrical halves
Radial Symmetry
Symmetry around a central axis
Asymmetry
Having a disproportional arrangement of parts
Sponges
multicellular organism that’s body is full of pores
Cndarians
An aquatic invertebrate animal that stings
Flatworms
A group of soft bodied, flat invertebrates
Roundworms
A parasitic nematode found in the intestines of animals
Mollusks
An invertebrate that has a shell
Open Circulatory System
When an animal’s blood is not enclosed in blood vessels
