4.5 Intro to Animals Vocab

framework

• Structure

• Skeleton

• Outline

• Template

an animal that has a backbone.

• Invertebrate

• Vertebrate

• Amphibian

• Reptile

an internal skeleton that supports an animal’s body.

• Exoskeleton

• Hydrostatic skeleton

• Endoskeleton

• Cartilage

in this body plan, the bodies of animals with this symmetry are organized like spokes on a wheel

• Bilateral Symmetry

• Radial Symmetry

• Asymmetry

• Spherical Symmetry

an animal that eats other organisms, or parts of organisms, to get the energy it needs for life processes.

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Herbivore

inner, internal

• Endo

• Exo

• Meso

• Ecto

an animal without a backbone.

• Invertebrate

• Vertebrate

• Mammal

• Reptile

outer, external

• Exo

• Endo

• Meso

• Intro

a hard, external covering, which supports the body of an invertebrate.

• Endoskeleton

• Exoskeleton

• Hydrostatic skeleton

• Cartilage

The process of cells developing into cells with different functions

• Cell Differentiation

• Cell Division

• Cell Proliferation

• Cell Specialization