Let's Get Terrestrial | Terms | Sponges, Cnidarians | "Creepy Crawlies" | Squishy and Spiny |
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What is an earthworm?
Segmented worm that belongs to the Phylum Annelida, lives in the soil.
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What is Molting
The act of shedding the exoskeleton and replacing it with one in order to grow.
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What is asymmetry; radial symmetry.
Type of symmetry:
Sponges have ( ) and cnidarians have ( ). |
What is Phylum Platyhelminthes
Flatworms, Example: tapeworm.
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What is the Class Bivalvia?
Have two shells.
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What is a "rolie-polie"?
A crustacean that lives on land, in moist environments because it breathes using gills.
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What is Bilateral symmetry
The organism can be divided into relatively equal halves
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What is the marine environment?
Primary habitat of both these phylums.
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What are horseshoe crabs?
Very old creatures, have blue blood, medically important.
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What is the Class Cephalopoda?
Class for Octopus, squids, and cuttlefish
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What is the Class Gastropoda?
Slugs and snails, like those you might find in your garden belong to this class.
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What is Segmentation
A characteristic that some animals have in which their bodies are made up of highly similar repetitive units.
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What are germ layers?
Sponges have none (no true ones) and cnidarians have only two.
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What is Phlyum Nematoda
Roundworms, Example: C. elegans.
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What is the Phylum Echinodermata?
Common examples include sea stars, sand dollars, sea urchins, and sea cucmbers.(Phlyum name)
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What is metamorphosis?
The process of an organism developing from egg to larva to adult.
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What is Parasitic
One organism lives in or on another organism, causing it harm.
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What are spicules?
The hard, glass like structures that provide structure to sponges.
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What are protostomes?
The term that describes the embryonic development of annelids, arthropods, nematodes, flatworms.
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What are deteurostomes?
Embryonic development of echinoderms.
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What is Class Diplopoda, millipedes?
Herbivorous class of the Subphylum Myriapoda, has two legs per segment.
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What is Monoecious
Also known as hermaphroditic, these animals have both male and female reproductive parts.
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What are cnidocytes?
The stinging cells that sea anenomes and jellyfish have.
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What is the Class Arachnida?
The name of the class that palpigrades belong to.
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What is dioecious?
Most of the molluscs have separate sexes, also known as this.
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