Vocabulary
Body Plan
Reproduction
Functions
100
Porifera means...
Pore bearer.
100
Sponges don't have _______ like most other animals do.
What are organs or tissues
100

How many methods of asexual reproduction so sponges have?

What is three.

100
A sponge eats by what process?
What is filter feeding.
200
An animal that can produce both eggs and sperm.
What is a hermaphrodite.
200

Embedded in the collagen are microscopic, brittle structures giving sponges its rigid form


What is the spicules.

200

The type of fertilization  occurs when one sponge releases sperm into the water traveling to another sponge and fertilizes its eggs.

What is sexual reprduction

200
To say that sponges are soft-bodied invertebrates means what?
They don't have a backbone.
300
Sponges take in food through their...
What is ostia (pores).
300
Most other animals have these but sponges don't.
What are organs.
300

The seed-like particles that sponges produce are...

What are gemmules.

300
What would happen if the sponge was torn apart?
The sponge would still be alive but seperate from each other.
400
The large opening that the waste exits through.
What is the osculae or osculum.
400

Sponges consists mainly of a protein called

What is collagen.

400

Sponges can reproduce two types of ways

What is sexually and asexually. 

400
Sponges absorb what to breathe?
What is oxygen.
500
Sponges are mainly ________ organisms. (refering to the way they move)
What is sessile.
500
TRUE or FALSE Sponges have true tissues and organs but no body symmetry.
What is false.
500
The type of reproduction where a growth drops off a sponge and floats away, creating a new sponge.
What is budding.
500

The inner layer consists of collar cells whose function is to circulate water through the sponge.

What are choanocytes?

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