Chapter 1 - Animals Flashcards
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Many called animals- sponges, jelly fish, worms, sea stars, mollusk, and arthropods
Invertebrates
More like plants than animals; attach themselves to rocks and other objects in the water; trap and consume tiny organisms that float in the water that passes in and out of their hollow bodies
Sponges
Sponges, hydras, jelly fish, and relatives
All have hollow bodies
Snails, squid, oysters
Mollusks
Animals with soft bodies
Mollusks
Some supported and protected by 1 or 2 shells
Mollusks
Powerful suction cups on their underside help it prey open of clams it eats
Sea star
Anchors tightly to rocks on the sea bottom
Sea star
Fish birds and lions are
Mammals
Fish birds and lions all have
Backbones
Stiff outer covering protects what’s body
An arthropod’s body
Narrow tube like bodies
Invs
Flat worms and have flattened bodies
Invs
Round and worm like and are like tiny snakes with no heads
Invs
Segmented worms
Earthworms
An animal with a backbone
Vertebrates
Fish, frogs, snakes, birds, and cats all have
Backbones or vertebrates
Get oxygen from H2o
Fish fish
Use gills to take in oxygen they need
Fish
Lay eggs in H2o
Fish
Range in size goby
1 1/2 centimeters long
Whale shark
12 meters long
Amphibians
Frogs and salamanders
Lay eggs in water
Salamanders and frogs