Animals are what? - answers✔✔All animals are heterotrophic (eat or parasitize other
organisms).
About how many million species of animals are known to exist? - answers✔✔more than
2,000,000 species
Most animal species are ____? - answers✔✔>1,950,000 are Invertebrates.
What type of symmetry is exhibited by things like starfish? - answers✔✔Radical - symmetrical
around a central axis
What phylum was the first to have a complete digestive system? - answers✔✔Roundworms
What phylum was the first to have organs? - answers✔✔Flatworms
What phylum was the first to have tissues? - answers✔✔Cnidarians
What phylum of animals has no tissues or organs and also lacks symmetry? -
answers✔✔Sponges
"Coelum" - answers✔✔Body cavity
, What phylum was the first to have coelomate bodies? - answers✔✔Mollusks.
There are 11 phyla of animals, ranging from the _______ to the "highest form," the
__________. - answers✔✔Sponges to the Chordates
Blood flukes are _____ that cause shistosomiasis in humans, especially in developing countries.
What other animal is involved in the reproductive cycle of blood flukes? -
answers✔✔Flatworms.
Certain kind of snail. (transferred through standing water).
While there may be fewer species of them, how does the number of individual roundworms
(nematodes) on Earth compare to the number of insects? - answers✔✔They are the most
abundant animals on earth.
One kind of roundworm plugs the lymph system of humans, leading to a disease called
_____________. - answers✔✔Elephantiasis.
What is the major way in which humans get tapeworms? - answers✔✔Animals consume them
through water or grass, which are then passed to humans through undercooked beef, pork, and
fish
The annelid phylum is composed of creatures with segmented bodies. What type of annelid is
seen on MSU sidewalks in the early spring months after rainy nights? - answers✔✔Earthworms
Which phylum makes up over half of the total known species of animals in the world? -
answers✔✔Arthropod. (insects, spiders, crustaceans.)
What "crustacean" is included in the name of a U.S. national restaurant chain? -
answers✔✔Lobster (Red Lobster)