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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?
100
What is anterior and posterior?
Towards the front of an organism and towards the back of an organism. (In order)
100
What is the pharynx?
The muscular structure just behind the mouth that sucks food into the mouth.
100
What are the hearts?
Simple, multiple structures that pump the blood through the dorsal and ventral blood vessels.
200
What are segments?
Worms in the Phylum Annelida have bodies that are divided into these linked sections.
200
What is dark?
When we put earthworms in a pan, the side the worms preferred - light or dark?
200
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.
200
What is anus?
The opening at the posterior end where undigested food exits.
300
What is a closed circulatory system?
Segmented worms have this type of circulatory system in which the blood is circulated inside tubes.
300
What is soil full of dead and decaying organisms?
The food that earthworms consume.
300
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.
300
What is a seminal vesicle?
The organ that stores sperm that the worm receives from another worm
400
What are leeches?
The type of segmented worm found in freshwater that generally feed on the blood of other organisms.
400
What is hermaphrodite?
The vocabulary word for an animal, like the earthworm, that has both male and female reproductive organs.
400
What are setae?
Bristles located on the ventral side of the earthworm - used to help the worm move through the soil.
400
What is the gizzard?
The thick-walled muscular sac where food is mechanically digested.
400
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.
500
What is bilateral symmetry?
The type of symmetry present in all phlya of worms.
500
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.
500
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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