Unit 3 LS Classifying Animals
Across
- 3. A gas-filled organ that allows a bony fish to move up and down in water.
- 5. A class of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks.
- 6. The process by which an arthropod sheds its external skeleton.
- 7. A group of living things that includes separate species.
- 9. An arrangement of body parts that resemble the arrangement of spokes on a wheel.
- 11. A body that consists of left and right halves that are the same.
- 12. Group things based on the features they share.
- 14. A soft material found in vertebrate skeletons.
- 17. An egg-laying vertebrate that breathes with lungs.
- 18. A worm whose body is divided into sections, such as earthworms or leeches.
- 20. Subdivision of a kingdom (plural is phyla).
- 21. Having a body temperature that changes with temperature and surroundings.
- 22. A worm with a smooth, round body and pointed ends.
- 23. The name given to each species, consisting of its genus and its species label.
- 24. A stage in the development of some insects that leads to the adult stage.
- 27. A group of organisms that can breed with each other to produce offspring like themselves.
- 29. A class of arthropods that includes crabs, lobsters, crayfish, and sow bugs.
- 31. A major change in form that occurs as some animals develop into adults.
- 32. An animal that does not have a backbone.
- 33. A small structure used by echinoderms for movement.
Down
- 1. A milk-producing structure on the chest or abdomen of a mammal.
- 2. Changes in form during development in which earlier stages look like the adult.
- 4. An armlike body part in invertebrates that is used for capturing prey.
- 8. A structure used by some animals to breathe in water.
- 10. A simple worm that is flat and thin.
- 13. A member of the largest group of invertebrates, which includes insects.
- 15. Changes in form during development in which earlier stages do not look like the adult.
- 16. One of the bones or blocks of cartilage that makes up a backbone.
- 19. An invertebrate divided into three parts.
- 25. Having a body temperature that stays the same.
- 26. An animal with a backbone.
- 28. An invertebrate animal that includes jellyfish, corals, and hydras.
- 30. A vertebrate that lives at first in water and then on land.