Classification
Anatomy
Sponge facts
Coral facts
Mixed
100
This is the Phylum that sponges belong.
What is Porifera
100
These are the pores found in sponges that let water in.
What are ostia?
100
The vast majority of sponges are found here.
What is salt or marine waters.
100
The type of coral that makes coral reefs.
What is hermatypic.
100
The stinging structures found on tentacles.
What are nematocytes.
200
This is the class that includes sea anenomes and coral.
What is Anthozoa (members are called anthozoans)
200
The name for the large opening where water leaves a spong?
What is the osculum.
200
How long sponges have been on Earth.
What is before the age of dinosaurs.
200
The type of reef that is separated from the land by a lagoon.
What is a "Barrier Reef"
200
The phylum name that refers to stinging cells.
What is Cnidarian?
300
The most complex shape of sponges
What is Leuconoid
300
The current through a sponge is powered by the flagella of these cells.
What are choanocytes(collar cells)?
300
Sponges are composed of these.
What are cells.
300
The algae that lives within the coral polyps.
What are zooxanthellae?
300
Where corals generally grow.
What is clear warm marine waters.
400
The class for the simplest sponges.
What is Asconoid?
400
The tissue that covers a jellyfish.
What is epidermis.
400
Animals that have evolved from sponges.
What are none, sponges are an evolutionary dead end.
400
The ring shaped reefs found mainly in the Pacific.
What are atolls.
400
Four ways that reefs are destroyed
What is 1. sedimentation 2. destructive fishing 3. Careless tourism 4. Pollution 5. Overharvesting for housing materials 6. Global warming
500
The class that contains jellyfish.
What is Scyphozoans?
500
What is the cavity for respiration and digestion in a jellyfish?
What is the gastrovascular cavity?
500
What sponges form when they asexually reproduce.
What are gemmules.
500
The flower gardens are an example of this type of reef.
What is a "patch" reef.
500
Where coral reefs will not be found.
What is near the mouths of rivers.
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