Porifera
The word Porifera means this...
What is "porous" or "pore-bearing"?
Cnidaria includes these kinds of animals (name one).
What are Jellyfish, Coral, and Anemones?
The word Echinodermata literally means this.
What is Spiny Skin?
What does the term Mollusk mean?
What is "soft bodied"?
The term arthropod means this.
What is "Jointed Foot"?
Phylum Porifera includes this kind of animal
What are sponges?
This is the body form of young, sessile cnidarians.
What is a Polyp?
Phylum Echinodermata includes these kinds of animals (name one)
What are Sea Stars, Urchins, Sand Dollars, and Sea Cucumbers?
Clams, oysters, and even octopus and squid use the structure to feed and swim.
What is a Siphon?
All Arthropods possess a hard exoskeleton made of this material.
What is Chitin?
This method is how Sponges get their food.
What is filter feeding?
These tiny stinging cells are used by Jellyfish to hunt and defend themselves.
What are Nematocysts?
These small structures on the underside of most sea stars allow them to move along the ocean floor.
What are tube feet?
Slugs and snails are members of this class of mollusk.
What are gastropods?
Arthropods possess this kind of circulatory system.
What is an Open Circulatory System?
These are cells that allow sponges to feed and get oxygen from the water.
What are collar cells?
This is the body type of an adult, free-swimming jellyfish.
What is medusa?
Starfish must do this to their stomachs to digest their food.
What is turn it inside out?
What kind of Mollusks are Cephalopods? (name one)
What are octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish?
Spiders, scorpions, ticks, and mites are members of this class of arthropod.
What are arachnids?
These tissues give sponges their shape and structural support.
What is spongin?
Cnidarians have this kind of symmetry.
What is Radial?
Sea stars have the ability to grow back lost limbs and reproduce using this method.
What is Regeneration?
This is the word for all mollusks that have two shells.
What is Bivalve?
This is the process arthropods go through to shed their exoskeleton.
What is Molting?