Sponge
Characteristics
random facts
Ecology
200

What type of framework do Porifera have?

What is skeletal framework.

200

What do pores do for the sponge?

What is filter

200

What are kitchen sponges used for today?

What is cleaning

200

Where do all Porifera live?

What is water, sea, and any aquatic environment.

300

How big was the largest sponge ever recorded?

What is 10 Feet

300

 The Pinacodern does

What is the "Skin"?

300

Are Porifera corniverous?

What is Yes

300

Do sponges like to live in water deep or shallow?

What is shallow

400

When were Porifera first known to be on earth?

What is about 600 million years ago.

400

What is the main shape of a sponge 

What is cylinderical 

400

What two way to spounges reproduce?

What is asexullay and sexullay?

400

Are Porifera predators or prey to fish?

What is prey

500

How do sponges move

What is latching their spicules onto a rock and ripping the spicules apart leaving a trail of skeletal fragments and flesh

500

What are the three things that a Porifera skeleton can be made out of.

calcium carbonate, silica, or spogin

500

What is Porifera latin for?

What is Pore-bearer

500

What sea animals eat sponges?

What is fish, sea slugs and hawksbill turtles.

600

What does Cryptotethya crypta release when attacked?

What is a nucleic acid

600

What structure is phylum porifera named after?

What is pores

600

During the middle ages what did Porifera believe to have?

What is theraputic value for treatment of diseases.

600

How are Porifera negatively affected by today?

What is increasing temperatures.