Identifying Invertebrates

What is an invertebrate?

• An animal with a backbone

• An animal that breathes with gills

• An animal without a backbone

• An animal that breathes with lungs

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Identify the invertebrate group the organism belongs to.

Starfish

• echinoderm

• mollusk

• arthropod

• cnidarian

This picture is an example of which group of invertebrates?

• Segmented worms

• Fish

• Sponges

• Arthropods

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ALL Arthropods have an outer covering called a(n)_________

• endoskeleton

• tentacle

• exoskeleton

• segment

I have a soft-body, a hard shell, and live on land and water.  What am I?

• Mollusk
• Arthropod
• Echinoderm
• Cnidarian

Between 90-97% of all animals on earth can be classified as _____.

• invertebrates

• vertebrates

I am an arachnid, have four pairs of legs, and a body with two sections. What invertebrate group to I belong to?

• Echinoderm

• Arthropod

• Mollusks

• Cnidarian

The planarian is an example of what type of worm?

• Segmented worm

• Roundworm

• Flatworm

• Sponge

What is molting?

• The process in which arthropods reproduce

• The process in which arthropods shed their outer covering and grow a larger one.

• The process in which arthropods hibernate

• The process in which arthropods breathe

Dragonflies, stink bugs, and lady bugs are __________.

• insects
• arthropods
• animals
• all of these

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