Fun Facts
Cartoon character; an example of Porifera.
Who is SpongeBob SquarePants?
The common name for Agelas clathrodes.
What is the Orange Elephant Ear Sponge?
The reasons most animals do not like to eat Porifera.
What are their hard exterior and bad taste?
The form sponges start their lives in.
What are larvae?
Sponges impacts on humans are positive or negative?
What is positive?
The width of the largest sponge ever recorded.
What is 10 feet?
The common name for Iotrochota birotulata.
What is the Green Finger Sponge?
Animals that consume Porifera for energy.
What are angelfish and hawksbill sea turtles?
The term used to describe a sponge's gender.
What is a hermaphrodite?
Impact of humans on sponges.
What is over-harvesting?
The maximum depth ocean Porifera can live in.
What is five miles below sea level?
The common name for Neofibularia nolitangere.
What is the Touch-Me-Not Sponge?
It protects Porifera from the sun's harmful UV rays.
What is the coloring of Porifera?
Sponges reproduce sexually or asexually?
What is both?
The part of sponges that humans use for medicinal purposes.
What are their toxins?
The speed non-stationary Porifera travel at.
What is 1-3 millimeters a day?
The common name for Spheciospongia vesparium.
What is the Loggerhead Sponge?
The adaptation that allows sponges to trap food.
What are flagella?
The organism sponge larvae develop into once released.
What are young sponges?
The purpose of sponges in the janitorial community.
What is cleaning and absorbing liquids?
The part of the Porifera responsible for digesting food.
What are individual cells?
The common name for Xestospongia muta.
What is the Giant Barrel Sponge?
The reason sponges adapt to their environments so well.
What is their extended time on Earth?
The thing asexually-reproducing sponges create.
What are gemmules?
The safer alternative to the hook method to harvest sponges.
What is the cutting method?