Terminology
Anatomy
Ecology
Ana2my
Habitat & More
100

A leather star is a member of this phylum.

What is Echinodermata?

100

The leather star has this many arms.

What is five arms?

100

The leather star causes the Stomphia spp (swimming anemone) to perform what action?

What is swimming?

100

The leather star moves using these.

What are podia (tube feet)?

100

A leather star is found in this habitat.

What is the rocky intertidal?

200

DAILY DOUBLE: A leather star has this kind of symmetry.

What is pentaradial symmetry?

200

A leather star uses this circulatory fluid as a substitute for blood.

What is seawater?

200

A leather star is considered a(n) ___vore.

What is an omnivore?

200

Podia (tube feet) are located on this side of the leather star.

What is the oral side?

200

The leather star's iconic texture is because of this substance that it secretes.

What is mucus?

300

A leather star is a member of this class?

What is Asteroidea?

300

The side of a leather star facing away from the benthos is this side.

What is the aboral side?

300

Leather stars hunt these animals.

What are anemones or sea squirts? 

300

Leather stars respire using this system.

What is the WVS and hemal system?

300

DAILY DOUBLE: Leather stars are known to smell like this pungent vegetable.

What is garlic? 

400

Leather stars can clone themselves through this method of asexual reproduction.

What is autotomization?

400

The gray/brown parts of the leather star’s skin are made up of this.

What are calcareous plates?

400

A leather star’s biggest predator in Oregon is this organism.

What are seagulls or larger sea stars?

400

Orange outcroppings along the leather star’s skin are known as what.

What are skin gills?

400

The leather star resides at this maximum depth.

What is 100 meters?

500

The leather star displays this type of embryonic development.

What is a deuterostome?

500

A leather star’s eyespots are located on this part of its body.

What are the ends of each arm?

500

DAILY TRIPLE: The leather star is attracted to this curious worm more than food items.

What is Arctonoe vittata?

500

Circulatory fluid enters the leather star through this organ.

What is the madreporite?

500

The leather star in our lab has this name.

Who is Theodore?