Porifera and Cnidaria
Worms
Molluscs
Echinoderms
Vocabulary
100

This is the common name for animals in the phylum porifera.

What is a sponge?

100

All worms have this type of symmetry.

What is bilateral symmetry?

100

Molluscs live in this/these environment(s).

What are aquatic and terrestrial?

100

Animals in the phylum echinoderm have this type of symmetry.

What is radial symmetry?

100

This provides external protection for an animal.

What is an exoskeleton?

200

These are 4 examples of cnidarians (name 2).

What are anemones, jellyfish, marine corals, and freshwater hydras?

200

These are the three types of worms.

What are  flat worms (platyhelminths), nematodes, and annelids?

200

Molluscs have these four body parts (name at least 2).

What are the head, muscular foot, visceral mass, and mantle?

200

Echinoderms have this/these kind of reproduction.

What are sexual and asexual reproduction?

200

This is a section or part of a body in some invertebrates.

What is a segment?

300

Poriferans have this/these type(s) of symmetry.

What is asymmetry?

300

Most worms of this class are parasites, like tapeworms, which live off humans.

What are platyhelminths or flatworms? 

300

These are the three main groups of molluscs.

What are bivalves, gastropods, and cephalopods?

300

Echinoderms can be these consumers, which describes what they eat. 

What are carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores?

300

This is a word used to name equinoderms with a central disc and five arms.

What is brittle star?

400

These are the two forms that cnidarian bodies have.

What are polyps and medusa? 

400

This is an aquatic animal that belongs to the phylum Annelida.

What is a leech?

400

Molluscs in this group lack an external shell and have a very well defined head.

What are cephalopods?

400

The purpose of this system is for helping echinoderms move around.

What is the ambulacral system?

400

This word means to reproduce by laying eggs.

What is oviparous?

500

These are the cells in cnidarians that inject venom into prey.

What are cnidocytes?

500
Some worms are this, meaning that they have both male and female reproductive organs.

What is hermaphroditic?

500

This is the part of the mollusc body responsible for producing the shell.

What is the mantle?

500

Echinoderms have a very simple version of this  organ system.

What are sense organs (nervous system)?

500

These are cells inside of porifera that specialize in capturing food.

What are choanocytes?

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