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Possible animals and simple animals questions
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. What is an organism at an early stage of development called?
a. embryo
c. vertebrate
b. invertebrate
d. consumer
2. What do animals use to get from one place to another?
a. tissues
c. movement
b. sex cells
d. embryos
3. What is an organism that eats other organisms called?
a. vertebrate
c. invertebrate
b. consumer
d. embryo
4. What kind of behavior is being demonstrated when a killer whale teaches its baby to hunt?
a. seasonal cycle
c. courtship
b. estivation
d. parenting
5. What are the daily cycles that control an animal’s schedule?
a. estivation
c. seasonal cycles
b. circadian rhythms
d. migration
6. What is a period of reduced activity during hot weather called?
a. courtship
c. hibernation
b. migration
d. estivation
7. All animals have eukaryotic cells and are
a. invertebrates.
c. asexual.
b. vertebrates.
d. multicellular.
8. Walking is an example of
a. an innate behavior.
c. a survival behavior.
b. a seasonal behavior.
d. a learned behavior.
9. Which of the following is an example of innate behavior?
a. a human taking piano lessons
b. a chimpanzee learning sign language from its trainer
c. a bee flying
d. a police dog finding drugs in a suitcase
10. A killer whale teaching its offspring to hunt is an example of
a. estivation.
c. courtship.
b. defensive behavior.
d. parenting.
11. A koala bear climbing a tree to get eucalyptus leaves is an example of what kind of survival behavior?
a. finding food
c. marking territory
b. defensive behavior
d. hibernation
12. The internal control of an animal’s natural cycles is called
a. estivation.
c. a biological clock.
b. hibernation.
d. migration.
13. Which of the following is a characteristic shared by all animals?
a. being a consumer
c. not having cell nuclei
b. having cell walls
d. budding
14. Which of the following is an example of chemical communication?
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a. budding
c. hibernation
b. pheromones
d. estivation
What behavior do animals use to protect their territories, food, mates, and offspring?
a. migration
c. defensive behavior
b. courtship behavior
d. reproduction
What is it called when an adult animal takes care of its baby?
a. estivation
c. courtship
b. hibernation
d. parenting
What kind of communication are chimpanzees using when they groom each other?
a. sight
c. courtship
b. touch
d. chemical
How are innate behaviors inherited?
a. through learned behavior
c. through seasonal cycles
b. through genes
d. through hibernation
What is an area occupied by an animal or group of animals called?
a. a territory
c. a distraction
b. a pheromone
d. a competition
What are animals that are eaten by other animals called?
a. pheromones
c. predators
b. consumers
d. prey
What do we call the transfer of signals and messages that animals use in social interaction?
a. competition
c. food and water
b. courtship
d. communication
Which list contains organisms that are NOT animals?
a. giraffes, grizzly bears, starfish
b. fish, spiders, birds
c. slugs, kangaroos, monkeys
d. cactuses, bacteria, mushrooms
Which body plan does a flatworm have?
a. asymmetry
c. bilateral symmetry
b. radial symmetry
d. segmented symmetry
What is the body of a roundworm like?
a. long, slim, and round
c. spongelike
b. fat and thick
d. tentacled
Which of these is a trait of all cnidarians?
a. stinging cells
c. regeneration
b. ocean dwelling
d. hard skeletons
What kind of circulatory system do most mollusks have?
a. radial
c. open
b. closed
d. segmented
What kind of circulatory system do squids have?
a. radial
c. open
b. closed
d. segmented
What do the bodies of all annelid worms have in common?
a. They are segmented.
c. They are flat.
b. They are round.
d. They have radial symmetry.
Which animals use a radula?
a. cephalopods
c. all mollusks
b. annelid worms
d. snails and slugs
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a. radial symmetry.
c. asymmetry.
b. bilateral symmetry.
d. segmented.
____ 36. Where do most animals digest food?
a. vascular system
c. circulatory system
b. gut
d. coelom
____ 41. What does the word invertebrate mean?
a. an animal that has no backbone
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b. an animal that is a parasite
d.
____ 42. What do parasites feed on?
a. material in soil
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b. dead animals
d.
____ 43. Which of these is a bundle of nerve cells?
a. gut
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b. tube foot
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____ 44. What do jellyfish and coral both have?
a. tube feet
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b. skeletons
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____ 45. What helps a sea star to move, eat, and breathe?
a. simple nervous system
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b. water vascular system
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an animal that has no head
an animal that has no skeleton
living animals
each other
ganglion
eye
stinging cells
wings
endoskeleton
closed circulatory system
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. multicellular
b. invertebrates
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an animal with a backbone
animals without backbones
organisms made of many cells
how most animals reproduce
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. defensive behavior
b. innate behavior
c. courtship
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c. sexually
d. vertebrate
d. learned behavior
e. food
f. territory
a behavior that is present at birth
a behavior that is not present at birth but has been taught or has been acquired from experience
the area where an animal lives, by itself or with a group of animals
to get this, some animals, such as owls, hunt; other animals, like chimpanzees, use tools
a behavior that an animal uses to protect its mate, offspring, food, territory, and itself from other animals
a behavior that attracts mates
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. touch
b. social behavior
c. sound
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Animals secreting pheromones is an example of this form of communication.
Chimpanzees grooming is an example of this form of communication.
This can reach a large number of animals over a large area or across a long distance.
Smiling, waving, and shrugging are examples of this.
This occurs when two animals of the same species interact, either in cooperation or competition.
A message, signal, or other information must be sent and received for this to occur.
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. biological clock
b. social behavior
c. tissue
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d. embryo
e. budding
f. consumer
an animal with a backbone
an organism at an early stage of development
an organism that eats other organisms
an area occupied by animals that do not allow other members of the species to enter
a special behavior an animal uses to find a mate
a type of asexual reproduction where part of an organism breaks off and develops as a new organism
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. organ
b. invertebrate
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d. pheromone
e. invertebrate
f. organ
a collection of similar cells
an internal control of an animal’s natural cycles
an interaction among animals of the same species
a group of tissues that carry out a special function of the body
an animal without a backbone
a substance used for chemical communication
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. territory
b. courtship
c. vertebrate
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d. chemicals
e. communication
f. body language
c. tissue
d. pheromone
a group of similar cells
a group of tissues that carry out a special function of the body
an animal with a backbone
a chemical used for communication
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. embryo
b. consumer
____ 81. an organism at an early stage of development
____ 82. an organism that eats other organisms
c. multicellular
d. budding
____ 83. an organism part that breaks off and grows into a new organism
____ 84. an organism made up of many cells
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. invertebrate
b. gut
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mass of nerve cells
body cavity that surrounds the gut
animal that does not have a backbone
pouch that breaks down food
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. foot
b. cephalopod
c. visceral mass
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d. mantle
e. shell
f. mollusks
have large brains that connect all ganglia
protects most mollusks from predators
helps mollusks to move
formed by guts and gills
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. sponges
b. Mollusks
c. cnidarians
d. Earthworms
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c. coelom
d. ganglion
e. flatworms
the simplest invertebrates
planarians, flukes and leeches
the most common annelids
develop as a medusa or a polyp
gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. annelid worms
b. arthropods
c. echinoderms
____ 109. animals that have spiny skeletons
____ 110. animals that have jointed limbs and specialized parts
____ 111. animals that have many segments
Short Answer
116. What five characteristics do all animals share?
117. What do vertebrates have that invertebrates don’t?
118. Describe one innate animal behavior that is present at birth. Describe one innate animal behavior that
develops sometime after birth.
119. Describe two ways that birds attract mates.
120. What are four reasons animals may migrate?
121. Describe what happens to an animal’s body during hibernation.
122. Give an example of a mollusk that does not live in the ocean.