Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes impacts on biophysical environments, biodiversity, and other resources. The term anthropogenic designates an effect or object resulting from human activity.
Animals can be divided broadly into vertebrates and invertebrates. Vertebrates have a backbone or spine (vertebral column), and amount to less than five percent of all described animal species. They include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The remaining animals are the invertebrates, which lack a backbone. These include molluscs (clams, oysters, octopuses, squid, snails); arthropods (millipedes, centipedes, insects, spiders, scorpions, crabs, lobsters, shrimp); annelids (earthworms, leeches), cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones, corals), and sponges.
The majority of animals on our planet, about 95 percent, do not possess a true backbone and are called invertebrates. It's common knowledge that vertebrates like humans have a complex nervous system that reacts to stimuli, but much less is known about invertebrates like shrimp and insects.he brain is a complex organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It contains billions of nerve cells that are connected by synapses to other cells and can send a train of signal pulses throughout the body.