Animal Classification Phylum Vocabulary

  1. organisms that obtain food by taking it from the water that passes through them
    Filter Feeders
  2. This Phylum means "Spiny Skin"
    Echinoderm
  3. Segmented Worms
    Annelid
  4. Flat worms
    Platyhelminthes
  5. A long, slender, flexable, arm-like structure found around the mouth or head of an animal
    tenticles
  6. an animal that lives in or on another organism
    Parasite
  7. Round worms
    Nematoda
  8. An organism with a backbone
    vertibrate
  9. Sharp glass or chalk-like structures that support and form the skeliton of a sponge
    Spicules
  10. remaining attatched to one place
    Sessile
  11. Phylum meaning "Pore-bearing"
    Porifera
  12. Cup of vase shaped body of a cnidairian, stays in one place
    Polyp
  13. A primary group found in the animal kingdom
    Phylum
  14. An organism without a backbone
    invertibrate
  15. They line the inside of a sponge
    Collar Cells
  16. A system of organization that outs things into groups
    classification
  17. Term meaning Stinging Cells
    nematocyte
  18. Phylum meaning "Stinging Cells"
    Cnidaria
  19. Whip-like structures that move water through a sponge
    Flagellium
  20. A phylum of organisms with a soft body and a muscular foot
    Mollusk
  21. Bell shaped body form of a cnidarian; free mmoving
    Medusa
  22. A group of mollusks, most have a shell
    Gastropod
  23. an organism that doesn't depend on other organisms for food or a place to live
    Free Living
  24. Mollusks with a slit or tenticled foot
    Cepholapod
  25. internal skeliton
    endoskeliton
  26. external skeliton
    exoskeliton
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Animal Classification Phylum Vocabulary
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Phylum Vocabulary
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