Flatworms
Symmetry of flatworms.
What is bilateral?
An example of an organism in this phylum.
What is the earthworm, leeches, etc..?
Type of skeleton in all worms.
What is hydrostatic?
Symmetry of adult jellyfish.
What is radial?
Common name for animals in phylum Porifera.
What is sponges?
How tapeworms, a type of flatworm, get their nutrition.
What is from a host? (They are parasites)
How earthworms are different than other worm phyla?
What is their segments?
The difference between free-living and parasitic roundworms.
What is that free-living worms eat organic matter and parasites feed off a host.
An example of a sessile cnidarian.
What is coral, sea anemone, hydra, sea fans?
Hard spikes that make up the exoskeleton of sponges.
What are spicules?
What it means for flatworms (and other worms) to be hermaphroditic.
What is they have male and female body parts?
Name of bristles (hairs) that help earthworms move through the dirt.
What are setae?
Roundworm phylum.
What is nematoda?
One way that cnidarians are important to marine ecosystems.
What is they clean the water, provide shelter for other animals?
Defining feature of a sponge (Hint: the name of the phylum refers to this feature)
What is pores?
Flatworm phylum.
What is Platyhelminthes?
Earthworm phyla.
What is annelida?
How worms get oxygen.
What is through their skin?
The immature and sessile form of a jellyfish is called this.
What is a polyp?
Why water currents are important to sponges.
They pass water through their bodies to filter out food.
How planarians reproduce asexually.
What is being cut in two and each half regenerating?
What it means for segmented worms to have a closed circulatory system.
What is blood is always contained inside a vessel?
A simple brain like the one found in worms is called this.
What is a ganglion?
Defining (special) feature of cnidarians.
What are nematocysts? (Stinging cells)
How sponges create a water current through their bodies.
What is the flagella of collar cells?