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Where is your head?
King Arthur's Table
The Sphinx's Riddle
Are We Dissecting Sharks?
Neil Degrass Tyson
100
Give one example of a mollusc.
So many options!!!!
100
Define the word: appendage
Its a limb, like an arm or leg
100
What phylum of invertebrate are insects?
arthropods
100
Which is evolutionarily older- sharks or trees?
Sharks!
100
Give an example of an echinoderm.
sea stars, urchins, sea cucumbers
200
Name the 3 types of molluscs and give an example of each.
Gastropods- snails and slugs; Bivalves- clams, mussels; Cephalopods- octopus, squid, cuttlefish
200
This is the name of the arthropod outer covering.
Exoskeleton
200
Why are ants important to some african communities?
natural pesticide- they eat everything else
200
Aproximately how many teeth does a Great White Shark have at any given time? You must be within 10% of the answer.
300 teeth
200
What system provides echinoderms with support and oxygen?
Water Vascular System
300
Act out how clams move/dig, including explanation of what you are doing.
Clams stick out their foot, widen the end so its stuck in the mud, then pull the rest of their body forward.
300
Explain one advantage of having jointed appendages.
More movement!
300
What kind of burgers do they eat in Kenya?
Fly burgers! And they have 7x the protein of a beef patty
300
How wide is a large Great White Shark?
A 20 foot shark is 8 feet wide (and 6 feet deep!)
300
Describe how sea stars eat.
They force open shells with their tube feet, then exude their stomach into the shell, partially digest the organism, then bring in the remainder of the organism.
400
What is a radula? Explain 2 different uses of radula in 2 different types of molluscs.
Radula is similar to a scraping tongue with teeth. It varies by type of mollusc. For example, the radula on gastropods is good for scraping algae, while the radula in squid is beak-like for tearing.
400
Name 3 of the 4 classes of arthropods and give an example of each.
Crustaceans: crabs, lobsters, shrimp; Arachnids: spiders, ticks, mites, scorpions; Centipedes/Millipedes; Insects: flies, grasshoppers, cockroaches, ants
400
How much honey is produced per bee per lifetime?
1 tablespoon
400
Where is the largest resident population of great white sharks in the world?
The Farallon Islands 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco.
400
How are Tube feet like a pipette?
They are controlled in the same way- muscles contract forcing water in or out of the water vascular system which creates suction.
500
Most mollusks have an open circulatory system. This class, however, has a closed one.
Cephalopods.
500
Explain why the arthropods were able to be the first animals to move permanently out of the water.
Their outer coverings offered support and protection that the water used to provide. It also kept the organism from drying out, a major problem in earlier organisms.
500
What percentage of human food is dependent on pollination by insects?
35%...85% in europe
500
From how far away can great white sharks smell blood?
3 miles!
500
How many pieces of pizza could you slice most echinoderms into? (What kind of radial symmetry do they show?) How can you tell in sea urchins?
5- part. The urchins have a 5-toothed feature called Aristotle's Lantern.