Animals Flashcards

1
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Bilateral symmetry

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Anything with a head, or if cut in half, both sides would be same.

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2
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Radial symmetry

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All parts radiate out from central point and are same

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3
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Asymmetrical

A

If you don’t know this I can’t help you

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4
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Open circulatory system

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Blood just kinda flows wherever like sponge, slow

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5
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Closed circulatory system

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Blood is always inside vessels, fast

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6
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Vertebrate

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Has backbone, only 5% of all animals, phylum Chordata

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7
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Invertebrate

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Doesn’t have backbone, 95% of animals on earth

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8
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Cephalization

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Having a head, with sense organs and nerves

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9
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Exoskeleton

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Skeleton is on outside

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10
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Endoskeleton

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Skeleton is on inside

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11
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Animals with Fluid-filled body cavity

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Earthworms and roundworms

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12
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Biodiversity

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The huge variety of organisms on this planet

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13
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Freshwater habitat

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Puddles, ponds, streams, rivers, lakes, inland marshes

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14
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Marine habitat

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Salt water - ocean

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15
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Brackish habitat

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Animals live in are where fresh and salt water meet - like an estuary

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16
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Terrestrial habitat

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Land

17
Q

Anterior

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Head

18
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Posterior

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Rear

19
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Dorsal

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Back

20
Q

Ventral

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Stomach

21
Q

Autotrophs

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Makes own food / energy

22
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Heterotrophs

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Must consume other things for food / energy

23
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Breathing mechanisms

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Gills, lungs, skin, trachea/ spiracles

24
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Incomplete metamorphosis

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Egg, nymph (naiad if aquatic), adult

25
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Complete metamorphosis

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Egg, larva, pupa, adult

26
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Chrysalis

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Pupa of butterfly

27
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Cocoon

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Pupa of moth

28
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Coelom

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Body cavity

29
Q

Ectoderm

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Sense organs, nerves, skin

30
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Mesoderm

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Muscles, circulatory, reproductive, and excretory organs

31
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Endoderm

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Linings of digestive tract, much of respiratory system

32
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Blastopore

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First hole thingy that develops in the embryonic stage

33
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Protosomes

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Blastopore becomes mouth (most invertebrates)

34
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Deuterosomes

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Blastopore becomes anus (Echinoderms and chordates)

35
Q

4 characteristic all chordates

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Notochord
Dorsal, hollow nerve chord
Pharyngeal slits
Tail that extends beyond anus

36
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6 Characteristics of vertebrates

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Vertebrae
Cranium
Endoskeleton
Cartilage and hard bone
Tetrapods- 4 legs
Hinged lower jaw