Study Guide for Animals and Taxonomy test on May 9th and 10th

First, as always, you should review all old bell quizzes and make corrections. These
are probably the best tool you have to study with.

ABOUT TAXONOMY AND THE SIX KINGDOMS

- What is taxonomy?

- Why did scientists see the need for taxonomy?

- What two major things does taxonomy seek to do?

- What is a scientific name? Common name?

- What is binomial nomenclature? How is it written?

- Know the taxonomic breakdown of Kingdom, Phylum, Class, etc. Which one is the
most specific group? Least specific?

- What are the six kingdoms of Life?

- What is a heterotroph? Autotroph?

- Know how each of the Kingdoms are different, AND what they are. IE, what is
archaebacteria? Where would you likely find archaebacteria? Are these organisms
multicellular? Are they prokaryotic? Heterotrophs? Be able to do that for all six
kingdoms!

Specific Information you should know about Animals:

- What is an animal? How do you define an animal?

- What do the terms cephalization, dorsal, ventral, anterior, posterior and segmentation
mean?

- Explain what is meant by the term filter feeder? A parasite?

- What does a herbivore, carnivore and omnivore eat?

- What is an adaptation? Give some examples of an adaptations based on obtaining

food? Based on avoiding predators? Based on hiding to surprise prey?

- What is meant by the terms asymmetrical, radial, bilateral? What is the trend in this
characteristic as you follow it through the animal kingdom?

- What are hermaphrodites? Why is this condition advantageous over other

conditions?

- What does it mean to be sessile? What group has a sessile life stage, and then a
mobile stage? What are these two stages called?

- What group is considered the simplest groups of animals (Phylum Porifera)? Where
in the environment would you find this animal? What does it eat? How does it eat?
Does it have a nervous system? A digestive system?
- What is a Cnidarian? Give some examples of a Cnidarian. Where in the
environment would you find this animal? What does it eat? How does it eat? Does
it have a nervous system? A digestive system? Does it have organs? Describe it’s
life cycle.

- What are germ layers? What is the significance of having all three (endoderm,
ectoderm, and mesoderm)? What animals have 2 germ layers? Which have 3?

- What is a coelom? What is the name to describe animals that don’t have one at all?
What is the name to describe animals that have one, but don’t have one as advanced
as ours?

- What is a flatworm? Where might you find a flatworm? What is important about
flatworms? What new adaptation did flatworms develop (what was new and
different from the Cnidarians or Sponges?)? What kind of body cavity does it have?
What kind of symmetry does it have?

- What is a nematode? What kind of body cavity does it have? What parasites are
nematodes? How does it reproduce?

- What is an annelid? What kind of body cavity does it have? What new things did
annelids develop that where carried on to most animals?

- What are the three groups of Arthropods? What are examples for each group?
Which groups have a cephalothorax? What characteristics do all arthropods have in
common?

- What is an Echinoderm? Give some examples. Explain the typical life cycle of an
echinoderm. What kind of symmetry do they have? What kind of body cavity? Do
they have a brain or head? How do they move?

- What is a mollusk? Give some examples. What are some characteristics that all
mollusks share? What kind of body symmetry and body cavity do they have?

- BE ABLE to identify animals to their phylum. For example: If I give you a picture
of a sea star, you need to be able to say it belongs to the Phylum Echinodermata.

For example: (Answers are at the end)

1. Name the phylum:

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2. Name the phylum:

3. Name the phylum:

4. Name the SUBphylum:

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5. Name the phylum:

6. Name the phylum:

7. Name the SUBphylum:

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8. Name the phylum:

9. Name the SUBphylum:

ANSWERS

1. Annelida 6. Porifera (sponges)

2. Cnidaria 7. Uniramia (insects)

3. Mollusca 8. Platyhelminthes (Planaria)

4. Crustacea 9. Chelicerata

5. Echinodermata