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Science Quiz-Animals
Science Animal Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are some characteristics of sponges? | They have pores-small holes that allow water to enter. Osculums- large opening to allow water and wastes to exit. They are asymmetric, filter feeders, and larva can move. |
| What is an example of a sponge? | A tube sponge. |
| What are some characteristics of cnidarians? | They have stinging cells on the tentacles, radial symmetry, and often are a medusa during part of their life cycle and a polyp during a different part of their life cycle. |
| What are some examples of cnidarians? | Coral, jellyfish, and anemones. |
| What are some characteristics of flatworms? | Long, narrow, flat bodies, soft bodied, and many are parasites. |
| What are some examples of flatworms? | Planarians, tapeworms, and liver flukes. |
| What are some characteristics of roundworms? | Cylindrical bodies, and a one-way digestive system. |
| What are some of examples of roundworms? | Heartworm, hookworm, and C. elegans. |
| What are some characteristics of segmented worms? | Many repeated body sections, closed circulatory systems, and live in burrows or tubes. |
| What are some examples of segmented worms? | Sandcastle worms, leeches, and earthworms. |
| What are some characteristics of mollusks? | Has a mantle- a thin layer of tissue that covers their organs, soft bodied, and often have a shell. |
| What are some characteristics of bivalves? | 2 hinged shells, and filter feeders. |
| What are some examples of bivalves? | Clams, scallops, mussels, and oysters. |
| What are some characteristics of cephalopods? | Tentacles around their mouth, may or may not have a shell, and large eyes. |
| What are some examples of cephalopods? | Squid, octopus, and chambered nautilis. |
| What are some characteristics of gastropods? | A broad foot and may have a coiled shell. |
| What are some examples of gastropods? | Snails and Slugs. |
| What is bilateral symmetry? | Line symmetry; the quality of being divisible into two halves that are mirror images. |
| What is a gill? | An organisms breathing organ that removes oxygen from water. |
| What is heterotrophic? | An organism that can not make its own food. Must obtain energy by eating other organisms. |
| What is a kidney? | An organisms that removes the wastes produced by an animals cells. |
| What is a medusa? | The cnidarian body plan characterized by aa bowl shape and which is adapted for a free swimming life. |
| What is a parasite? | An organism that lives inside or on another organism and takes food from the organism on which it lives on. |
| What is a polyp? | The cnidarian body plan characterized by a vaselike shape and which it usually adapted for life attached to an underwater surface. |
| What is radial symmetry? | The quality of having many lines of symmetry that all pass through a central point. |
| What is a radula? | A flexible ribbon of tiny teeth in mollusks. |