SpongeBob Square Pants & Friends
Patrick Star is a sea star (star fish) and belongs to this Phylum
What is Echinodermata?
This is the type of "skeleton" that Mr. Krabs and a Insects have
What is an exoskeleton?
The Annelids have what characteristic in common (also type of worm)
What is segmentation (they are segmented worms)?
During gastrulation the blastula (hollow ball of cells) begins to fold inwards forming a blastopore which is the beginning of forming this whole structure
What is the digestive tract?
This type of worm may be aquatic, sessile, and secrete hard tubes to live and hide in
Squidward the Octopus, Gary the Snail, and Clamu the Clam all belong to Phylum Mollusca and have this characteristic in common
What is the mantle?
Patrick Star has this type of "skeleton"
What is an endoskeleton?
Parasitic worms often require this before ending up in their definitive host
What is an intermediate host (second host)?
DAILY DOUBLE
Arthropods have these 2 types of metamorphosis:
1. egg -> nymph -> adult
2. egg -> larva -> pupa -> adult
What is
1. Simple metamorphosis
2. Complete metamorphosis
This term is used to describe the periodic shedding of the exoskeleton
What is ecdysis?
Mr. Krabs the crab and Larry the Lobster belong to this Phylum which means "jointed feet" and includes insects
What is Arthropoda?
Fungi, Nematodes, and Mr. Krabs (Arthropods) have this compound that forms their outer coverings
What is Chitin?
The segments of the tapeworm (Phylum Platyhelminthes) that contain reproductive organs
What are proglottids?
Bilateral animals with embryological development where the mouth forms first are called this
What are Protostomes?
This type of digestive system only has one opening
What is an incomplete digestive system?
DAILY DOUBLE
1. Name the Phylum of the Jellyfish that SpongeBob loves to hunt and
2. Name the sessile and motile body forms the Jellyfish may have
2. What is Polyp (sessile form) and Medusa (motile form)?
Squidward is able to camouflage due to these cells that are imbedded within his mantle
What are chromatophores?
Gary the snail from SpongeBob is the intermediate host for this type of parasite that cause swimmers itch and the more serious schistosomiasis
What is the blood fluke (Phylum Platyhelminthes)
This body component is an adaptive advantage that allows for complex movement, more complete digestion and absorption of nutrients, protects internal organs from injury, and allows for a more complex circulatory system
What is the coelom?
While hunting jellyfish SpongeBob was stung by the threadlike harpoons that deliver venom called nematocysts that are within the stinging cells called this
What are Cnidocytes?
SpongeBob has this type of cell that facilitates movement of water through his body
What is a choanocyte?
Patrick Star uses what system for locomotion, gas-exchange, and the removal of metabolic wastes
What is the Water Vascular System?
The heartworm worms (Dirofilaria immitis) a type of roundworm belong to this Phylum
What is Nematoda?
Each early cell in this type of embryonic development pattern could develop into a complete embryo
What is Indeterminate development?
When an embryo is formed within an ovum without fertilization
What is parthenogenesis?