Animal Jeopardy Game

Sapat (Hiligaynon)

400

1. This is the specialized muscular foot used for movement in the phylum Mollusca.

What is the ventral muscular foot?

500

1. These excretory cells, found in flatworms, are the simplest excretory systems in the animal kingdom.

What are flame cells (or protonephridia)?

600

1. This phylum is the only one to utilize "jointed appendages," a major evolutionary innovation for land and sea.

What is Arthropoda?

800

1.  The "veliger" is a unique larval stage found specifically in this phylum.

What is Mollusca?

1000

1. This process in gastropod mollusks involves the 180-degree twisting of the visceral mass during development.

What is torsion?

Hayop (Tagalog)

400

1. Sponges belong to this "subkingdom," meaning "beside the animals," because they lack true tissues.

What is Parazoa?

500

1. This is the sieve-like opening that allows water to enter the water vascular system of an echinoderm.

What is the madreporite?

600

1. This "tough" non-living outer layer is secreted by the epidermis in Nematodes and must be shed for growth.

What is the cuticle?

800

1. These are the structural "needles" made of silica or calcium carbonate that provide support to a sponge's body.

 What are spicules?

1000

1. This "ring" of ciliated tentacles used for feeding is found in some members of the Lophotrochozoa clade.

What is a lophophore?

Mananap ( Cebuano)

400

1. This term describes the concentration of sense organs and nervous control at the anterior end of the body.

 What is cephalization

500

1.  In sponges, water exits the body through this large, central opening.

What is the osculum?

600

1. These "creeping" foot-like structures are used by many marine Annelids for swimming and respiration.

What are parapodia?

800

1. This specific type of cleavage (cell division) is characteristic of protostomes.

What is spiral cleavage?

1000

1. These are the specialized respiratory organs found in spiders.

What are book lungs?

Tupas ( Bicolano)

400

1. This clade groups Mollusca, Annelida, and Platyhelminthes based on molecular data and larval stages.

What is Lophotrochozoa?

500

1. Arthropods possess this type of circulatory system where blood (hemolymph) bathes organs directly.

What is an open circulatory system?

600

1.  This jelly-like substance separates the two tissue layers in a Cnidarian.

What is mesoglea?

800

1. This specific type of cleavage is characteristic of deuterostomes.

What is radial cleavage?

1000

1. This is the only phylum that lacks hox genes in the same arrangement as all other "Eumetazoans."

What is Porifera?