1. Introduction to the Animal Kingdom
Section 26–1
This section describes characteristics that all animals share and the essential functions that animals carry out. It also explains the important trends in animal evolution.

2. What Is an Animal? Is the following sentence true or false?
The cells that make up animal bodies are eukaryotic.

3. What Is an Animal?
What characteristics do all animals share?

4. What Is an Animal?
Complete the table about animals.

5. What Animals Do to Survive
What are seven essential functions that animals carry out?

6. What Animals Do to Survive

7. What Animals Do to Survive
Explain the difference between a parasite and a host.

8. Sponges and Cnidarians
What does an animal do when it respires?

9. What does the excretory system of most animals do?

10. Animals respond to events in their environment using specialized cells called_____.

11. What are receptors, and what is their function?

12. What does it mean that an animal is motile?

13. What enables motile animals to move around?

14. What process helps a species maintain genetic diversity.

15. What does asexual reproduction allow animals to do?

16. Trends in Animal Evolution
What are four characteristics that complex animals tend to have?

17. Trends in Animal Evolution
How have the cells of animals changed as animals have evolved?

18. Trends in Animal Evolution
Groups of specialized cells form______ , which form organs, which form_______.

19. Trends in Animal Evolution
What does a zygote form after it undergoes a series of divisions.

20. What is a protostome?

21. What is a deuterostome?

22. Trends in Animal Evolution
Is the following sentence true or false?
Most invertebrates are deuterostomes.

23. Sponges and Cnidarians
In the development of a deuterostome, when is the mouth formed?

24. Complete the table about germ layers.

25. Complete the table about body symmetry
Sponges and Cnidarians
Complete the table about body symmetry

26. Sponges and Cnidarians
In an animal with radial symmetry, how many imaginary planes can be drawn through the center of the animal that would divide the animal in half?

27. Sponges and Cnidarians
Anterior -
Posterior -
Dorsal -
Ventral -

28. Sponges and Cnidarians
A body that is constructed of many repeated and similar parts, or segments, exhibits _______.

29. Sponges and Cnidarians
What is cephalization?

30. Sponges and Cnidarians
How do animals with cephalization respond differently to the environment than animals without cephalization?

31. Sponges and Cnidarians
What is a body cavity?

32. Sponges and Cnidarians
Why is having a body cavity important?