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What is Annelida?
The name of the Phylum to which segmented worms belong.
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What is wet?
When we put earthworms in a pan, the side the worms preferred - wet or dry?
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What is anterior and posterior?
Towards the front of an organism and towards the back of an organism. (In order)
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What is the pharynx?
The muscular structure just behind the mouth that sucks food into the mouth.
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What are the hearts?
Simple, multiple structures that pump the blood through the dorsal and ventral blood vessels.
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What are segments?
Worms in the Phylum Annelida have bodies that are divided into these linked sections.
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What is dark?
When we put earthworms in a pan, the side the worms preferred - light or dark?
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What is dorsal and ventral?
On the top (back) of an organism and on the underside of an organism. (In order)
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What is the crop?
A thin-walled sac that stores food temporarily.
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What is anus?
The opening at the posterior end where undigested food exits.
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What is a closed circulatory system?
Segmented worms have this type of circulatory system in which the blood is circulated inside tubes.
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What is soil full of dead and decaying organisms?
The food that earthworms consume.
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What is the prostomium?
A fleshy projection near the mouth - located on the 2nd segment of the earthworm - used to push food into the mouth.
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What is the esophagus?
The narrow tube that connects the pharynx to the crop.
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What is a seminal vesicle?
The organ that stores sperm that the worm receives from another worm
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What are leeches?
The type of segmented worm found in freshwater that generally feed on the blood of other organisms.
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What is hermaphrodite?
The vocabulary word for an animal, like the earthworm, that has both male and female reproductive organs.
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What are setae?
Bristles located on the ventral side of the earthworm - used to help the worm move through the soil.
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What is the gizzard?
The thick-walled muscular sac where food is mechanically digested.
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What is false? Worms exchange only sperm. They use the sperm of another worm to fertilize their own eggs.
T or F During reproduction, worms exchange both sperm and eggs.
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What is bilateral symmetry?
The type of symmetry present in all phlya of worms.
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What is sexually? They exchange genetic material.
Though hermaphroditic, earthworms reproduce in this way.
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What is the clitellum?
The thick ring of tissue where earthworms connect to exchange sperm.
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What is the intestine?
The long tube that takes up approximately 2/3 of the worms body where food is chemically digested and nutrients are absorbed.
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What is a brain?
Earthworms have this very simple type of organ that is generally just a ball of nerve tissue.
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