Fungi
Tangled, mass of hyphae that make up the body of most fungi.
What is mycelium?
The levels of organization of animals.
What is cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organism, population, communities, ecosystems, biosphere?
Sponges have these structures used for support and protection. Sponges are also classified by these.
What are spicules?
This structure creates the shell in many mollusks.
What is the mantle?
What are crustaceans?
This Division of Fungi reproduce only sexually and include mushrooms, shelf fungi, and puff balls.
What is Basidiomycota?
This Phylum of animals include sea stars and sea urchins.
What is Echinodermata?
The vase-like body plan of some cnidarians.
What is the polyp body plan?
A ribbon of teeth inside many mollusks.
What is the radula?
Dragonflies, beetles, and bees belong to this class of arthropods.
What are insects?
The reproductive structure of bread mold.
What is the zygosporangium?
Maintaining a stable internal body condition.
What is homeostasis?
The structures located inside the cnidocyte of cnidarians that contain the venom.
What are nematocysts?
This class of mollusks are filter feeders.
What is Peleycopoda?
Arthropods have this type of circulatory system.
What is an open circulatory system?
Three ways Fungi are ecologically important to their environments.
What are food for other organisms, can cause disease, decomposers, habitats, return nutrients to the soil?
Another term for a warm blooded animal.
What is endothermic?
Three ways sponges are ecologically important to their environments.
What are filter feeders (clean oceans), habitats, and food for other animals?
This class of mollusks are the most primitive and were the ancestors to modern mollusks.
What is Polyplacophora?
When an arthropod sheds its exoskeleton in order to grow.
What is molting?
This Phylum includes leeches and earthworms.
What is Annelida?
Three ways cnidarians are ecologically important to their environments.
What are food for other animals, habitats, and prey on small animals keeping populations in balance?
Three ways mollusks are ecologically important to their ecosystems.
What are food for other organisms, filter feeders, habitats, prey on other organisms keeping populations in balance.
Three ways arthropods are ecologically important to their environments.
What are pollinators, food for other organisms, prey on other organisms, decomposers, return nutrients to soil?