Download Animal Unit-Vocabulary Multicellular Made up of more than one cell

Animal Unit-Vocabulary
Multicellular
Made up of more than one cell
Vertebrate
An animal that has a backbone
Endoskeleton
Phyla
Genera
An internal skeleton
Plural form of phylum – one of the largest groups a kingdom is divided into
Plural form of genus – a division of a family
Ectothermic
Body temperature is close to that of their environment
Endothermic
Body temperature stays constant regardless of the temperature of the environment
Heterotroph
An organism that cannot produce its own food
Fish
Amphibian
Pores
A vertebrate that lives in water and uses gills to breath
A vertebrate that spends the first part of its life in the water and then develops lungs and
breathes air
Holes through which water flows
Reptiles
An ectothermic vertebrate that has scales and lays eggs on land
Birds
An endothermic vertebrate with a beak, two legs, and two wings
Mammals
A vertebrate that has fur or hair and makes milk to feed its young
Invertebrates
An animal without a backbone
Exoskeletons
Metamorphosis
Sponges
Segmented worms
Echinoderms
Mollusks
A skeleton outside an organism’s body
A change in the form of an animal during development
A simple animal that lives in the water, attached to a solid surface
An invertebrate with Long tube-like body that is divided into segments
An aquatic invertebrate which has arms that extend outward from the center of the body
and a skeleton made of calcium
An invertebrate whose body is divided into a head, a body mass, and a foot
Arthropods
An invertebrate with an exoskeleton, jointed legs, and a segmented body
Camouflage
The ability of an organism to blend into its surrounding
Mimicry
Looking like another living thing, or like a nonliving part of the environment
Internal stimuli
A stimulus that comes from within an organism
External stimuli
A signal from or change in an organism’s environment that the organism responds to
Hibernation
Migration
Internal
Temperature
Sweating
Panting
A state when an animal’s breathing and heart rate slow down and the animal goes into a
period of deep sleep
An animal’s movement to a new location when the season’s change
The temperature inside an animal’s body
Salty water produced by glands in the skin that evaporates and cools the body
An animal breathes heavily which increases the air flow and causes an increase in
evaporation from the animal’s mouth an lungs, cooling the animal
Constant Body
Temperature
Physical Response
An animal’s ability to keep a constant temperature inside the body
An organism’s physical reaction to an external stimuli
Shivering
An involuntary response the body uses to increase the rate at which energy is
transformed into heat
Blinking
An automatic response that helps protect the eye
Tear Film
Protects the eye from drying out and from potential infection
Behavior
Anything an organism does in response to changes in its environment; a complex set of
responses to stimuli
Food Gathering
Storing Food
Behavioral
Responses
Learned behavior
Defense
Migration
Smells
The process of finding food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or
roots, may be seasonal
Animals gather food and store food for the winter
How animals cope with their environment
Animal behaviors that result from direct observation and or experiences
An organism’s way of escaping a predator
An animal’s movement to a new location when the seasons change
An offensive odor in response to fear
Ejection
An animal can release a fluid to give it time to escape
Stingers
Wasp and bees use this for protection
Grouping
Animals travel together in groups to protect individuals within the group or to fool a
predator into thinking the group is one large organism
Courting
Imprinting
Sensory Cues in
Courtship
Conditioning
Adults of a species try to attract a potential mate
A behavior in which newborn animals recognize and follow the first moving thing they see
Chemical odor cues, sounds, or colors that serve as courtship attractants in animals
A form of a learned behavior in which an organism learns to respond in a specific way to a
stimulus
Inherited behavior
Animal behaviors that are passed from parent to the offspring and are with the animal
from birth
Instincts
An action or response that an animal gets from its parents and does not have to learn
Internal Stimuli
A stimulus that comes from within an organism
Hunger
An internal stimulus that cues an animal to eat
Thirst
An internal stimulus that cues an animal to drink
Sleepiness
An internal stimulus that cues an animal to sleep
Nervous System
Gills
A network of nerves and organs that controls body activities
An organ that allows animals to breathe underwater
Autotroph
An organism that can produce its own food
Organism
A living thing