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Animals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Homeostasis | Keeping internal body conditions stable |
| Adaptations | Structures and behaviors that allow animals to perform functions |
| Vertebrate | Animals with backbones |
| Invertabrates | Animals without a backbone |
| Tissue | Group of similar cells |
| Organ | Made up of different tissues |
| Bilateral Symmetry | One line divided into two sides |
| Radial Symmetry | Only one line divided |
| Cnidarian | Invertabrates that have stinging cells |
| Mollusk | Invertebrates with soft unsegmented bodies protected by hard shell |
| Arthropod | Invertabrates that have hard outer coverings |
| Exoskeleton | Outer skeleton |
| Echinoderm | Invertebrate that has an internal skeleton and system of fluid-filled tubes |
| Endoskeleton | Internal skeleton |
| Chordates | Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals |
| Notochord | Flexible rod that supports a chordates back |
| Vertebra | Small bones |
| Ecotherm | Little internal body heat |
| Endotherm | Animal that controls the internal heat it produces |