Chapter 12 Vocabulary: Introduction to Animals

An animal that can produce both eggs and sperm in the same body.

• hermaphrodite

• bilateral symmetry

• herbivore

The opening at the end of the digestive system where waste is removed is the ___.

• anus

• carnivore

• medusa

When body parts are arranged in a similar way on both sides of the body, with each half being nearly a mirror image of the other half the organism is said to have _________. (example: human, butterfly, snake)

• bilateral symmetry

• no symmetry (asymmetrical)

• radial symmetry

A carnivore is an animal whose body is set up to eat ____.

• other animals

• only vegetables

• both meat and vegetables

The opposite of a parasite is a _____ organism.

• free-living

• nonexistent

• parasitic

An _____ has a body set up to eat only plant material. They have flat teeth in order to grind up the tough cellulose found in cell walls of plants.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

An invertebrate does not have a ____.

• backbone

• exoskeleton

• brain

Which Cnidarian body form is this?

• polyp

• medusa

An ____ has a body set up to eat and digest both plants and meat.

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

The Cnidarian body form shown here is the ____.

• medusa

• polyp