Phylum meanings
animal phylum
Phylum facts
animal parts
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100

Which phylum means: pore bearers

-also give an example of an animal in this phylum.

Porifera 

sponges

100

What phylum:

Sea star

echinoderm

100

90%-95% of animals on Earth are classified as? 

invertebrates

100

stinging cells in cnidarians are called? 

nematocytes

100
What is the name of the type of form of cnidarian that has the tenticles and mouth point up?

polyp

200

What phylum means stinging nettle?

-give an example 

cnidarians

-jellies

200

What phylum?

-coral

cnidarian


200

The toothy tongue of a snail in called?

radula


200

What two phylum is all bilateral 

arthropods and mollusks



200

removing and replacing the old exoskeleton is known as? 

molting

300

Which phylum means segmented worms?

-give an example 

Annelida


-earthworm

300

What phylum? 

-mussel

mollusk

300

arthropods have segmented bodies, jointed appendages, and an ______________?

exoskeleton

300

The "bell" part of a jellyfish is called a? 

medusa 

300

bi vavles feed this way? 

filter feeding

400
What phylum means: flat worms


-give an example

Platyhelminthes

-tapeworms 

400

What Phylum? 


nautilus

mollusk

400

Which phylum is mainly asymmetrical?

porifera

400

What protects the body of a mollusk? 

mantle
400

the name gastropods means? 

stomach foot

500

Which phylum means: soft bodies

-give an example

mollusks


-squid

500

what Phylum is:


cicada

arthropod

500

what two phylum are just about all radial symmetry? 

cnidarians and echinoderms

500

The "skeleton" of coral is made by secreting and the hardening of what material? (it is the same material that will produce the shell of a clam)

calcium carbonate

500

A "disturbance" between the mantle and the shell of an oyster will produce...what?

pearl