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A vertebrate that lives at first in water and then on land.
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What is an Amphibian? (54)
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Ex. Frogs, Salamanders, and Toads.
Undergo metamorphosis in development to adults. |
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A class of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, & ticks.
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What is an Arachnid? (611)
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Arachniphobia is the fear of spiders.
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A member of the largest group of invertebrates which includes insects.
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What is an Arthropod? (59)
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An eight legged Arachnid is a member of this group.
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A body plan that consists of left and right halves that are the same.
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What is Bilateral Symmetry? (58)
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Ex. Butterfly. If you made an imaginary line down the abdomen, the left side would be a mirror image of the right side.
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A soft material found in vertebrate skeletons.
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What is Cartilage? (53)
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Ex. Shark skeleton. Not hard but soft and resilient unlike bone.
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To Group things bases on the features they share.
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What is Classify? (46)
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Sorting things into groups with common characteristics. (science of Taxonomy requires this)
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An invertebrate animal that includes jellyfish, sea anemones, corals, and hydras.
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What is a Cnidarian? (57)
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pronounced( ni DAR ee uhnz ) Latin for "stinging cells"
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A class of Arthropods that includes crabs, lobsters, crayfish, and sow bugs.
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What is a Crustacean? (61)
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Have one or two antennae and jaws called mandibles for crushing food, live in fresh or salt water.
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A simple worm that is flat and thin.
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What is a Flatworm? (58)
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Some are freeliving (planarians)but most are parasites (tapeworms).
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A structure used by some animals to breathe in water.
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What is a Gill? (54)
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An organ that exhanges carbon dioxide with water.
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An animal that does not have a backbone.
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What is an Invertebrate? (57)
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Ex. sponges, jellyfish, worms, insects, & clams
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A milk-producing structure on the chest or abdomen of a mammal.
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What is a Mammary Gland? (56)
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Produce the milk that mammals feed their young through her teets.
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A major change in form that occurs as some animals develop into adults.
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What is Metamorphosis? (54)
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A process found in Amphibians and some insects like moths or butterflies.
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The process by which an orthropod sheds its external skeleton.
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What is Molting? (60)
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Ex. A Katydid shedding its exoskeleton.
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The subdivision of a Kingdom.
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What is a Phylum? (48)
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Also called a division in the plant and fungi Kingdoms.
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A stage in the development of some insects that leads to the adult stage.
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What is Pupa? (62)
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A resting and development stage inside the chrysalis when a larvae becomes a butterfly.
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An arrangement of body parts that resembles the arrangement of spokes on a wheel.
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What is Radial Symmetry? (57)
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Ex. The medusa is a bell-shaped free-swimming Cnidarian that resembles a jellyfish.
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An egg-laying vertebrate that breathes with lungs.
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What is a Reptile? (55)
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Ex. turtles, lizards, snakes, alligators, & crocodiles; produce leathery soft shell eggs.
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A worm with a smooth, round body and pointed ends.
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What is a Roundworm? (58)
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Ex. Heartworms in dogs; in the phylum Nematoda, largest phylum of worms.
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The name given to each species consisting of its genus and species label.
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What is a Scientific Name? (50)
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The 1st name is the genus (capital letter) and the 2nd name is the species label (lowercase) called binomial nomenclature and uses Latin names. Ex. Canis familiaris is a domesticated dog.
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A group of organism that can breed with each other to produce offspring like themselves.
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What is a Species? (49)
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Ex. Canis can include domesticated dogs, coyote, and gray wolf but their species names are all different due to physical characteristics.
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A gas-filled organ that allows a bony-fish to move up and down in the water.
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What is a Swim Bladder? (54)
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An air-sac in a fish that controls its buoyancy or ability to float upright due to a liquid/gas force.
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The science of classifying organisms based on the features they share.
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What is Taxonomy? (47)
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Aristotle developed his ________ by dividing organisms into two large kingdoms of plants and animals.
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An armlike body part in invertebrates that is used to capture prey.
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What is a tentacle? (57)
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Ex. Octopi, Squid, and hydra have these
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A small structure used by Echinoderms for movement.
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What is a Tubefoot? (25)
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Connect to water vascular system helping them move and feed.
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One of the bones or blocks of Cartilage that make up a backbone.
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What is a Vertebra? (53)
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Make up the backbone in Vertebrates.
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An animal with a backbone.
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What is a Vertebrate? (53)
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These animals possess vertebra from which they get their name.
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