Animal Classification

What is an invertebrate?

• an animal with a backbone

• an animal without a backbone

• mammals

• birds

True or False: Fish are not Vertebrates

• True

• False

What animals are Vertebrates

• Fish

• Dog

• Sea cucumber

• Fly

How are Vertebrates and Invertebrates different?

• Vertebrates have backbones and so do invertebrates

• Vertebrates have backbones and Invertebrates don't

• Vertebrates don't have backbones and Invertebrates do

• Vertebrates don't have an in as the first two letters but Invertebrates do

What are the characteristics of invertebrates that help classify them as animals?

• No Backbone

• They can all move

• They are multicellular

• They must eat food

• They are prokaryotes

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what type of symmetry does the organisms below have?

• radial

• bilateral;

• assymmetry

• sperical

what type of symmetry does the organism below have?

• radial

• bilateral

• assymmetry

• spherical

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Name the group....

Have stinging cells. Jellyfish & coral are examples.

• cnidaria

• mollusca

• athropoda

• echinodermata

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This phylum of animals has a hollow body, central mouth, and radial symmetry. Examples are jellyfish, corals, and sea anemone.

• Porifera

• Cnidaria

• Arthropod

• Echinoderm

This Phylum of animals live in the sea, have radial symmetry, spiny skinned, and use tubed feet to move. Examples are sea stars, sea urchins, and sand dollars.

• Cnidarian

• Arthropod

• Echinoderm

• Mollusk

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