14-2 Animal Kingdom (pp 430-436)

Scientists have named about this many different animal species ( pg. 430)

• 100,000

• one million

• 100 million

• 1 billion

According to the pie chart on page 430, it's clear that the group that is the largest in the animal kingdom is:

• Arthropods

• Annelids

• Mammals

• Chordates

By examining the branching diagram at the top of page 431, you can see that the type of organism most closely related to the arthropods are the:

• Chordates (backboned animals)

• Mollusks ( creatures like snails, clams and octopi)

• Sponges

• Annelids

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(pg. 431) An invertebrate is an animal:

• without a backbone

• without a brain

• without legs

• that lives underground

(pg. 431) These are the simplest group of animals:

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Which of these animals is a Cnidarian?

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The cup shaped body form seen here is known as :

• Medusa

• Alluvial

• Porphyric

• Polytubes

The simplest type of worms are called:

• Flatworms

• Earthworms

• Wigglers

• Roundworms

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The shell of mollusks is produced by this body part

• coelum

• porphid

• trisome

• mantle

(pg. 433) The tentacles of the octopus have evolved from this body part:

• foot

• skin

• intestine

• claws

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