11a and 11b

Question 1

zoology

Answer 1

Study of animals. Animals eat food instead of absorbing it. Animals reproduce sexually.

Question 2

Invertebrate

Answer 2

Animals without backbone. Starfish, sponges, jellyfish, or earthworm. Skeleton instead of backbone. Hundreds of shapes and sizes.

Question 3

Vertebrate

Answer 3

Animals with backbone.

Question 4

Sponge

Answer 4

Is an animal whose existence is dependent on pores that pump water through the body. Bring food, oxygen, and removes waste.

Question 5

Porifera

Answer 5

Means Pore Bearer. Made up of pores like a sponge.

Question 6

Sessile

Answer 6

Unable to move from place to place.

Question 7

Spongin

Answer 7

Skeleton of sponge. Flexible fibrous protein.

Question 8

Spicules

Answer 8

Stiff little spikes. Sponges are used for bathing, cleaning, and painting.

Question 9

Collar Cells

Answer 9

In sponges central cavity. In them the flagellum can move causing water and food to flow in. Water exits the top.

Question 10

Fiber Eaters

Answer 10

Another name for sponges.

Question 11

Jellyfish tentacles

Answer 11

Jelly fish are phylum cnidarian with tentacles with stinging cells.

Question 12

Radial symmetry

Answer 12

Jelly fish can be divided into two equal halves on any plane of it.

Question 13

Medusa

Answer 13

Umbrella shaped body of a jellyfish.

Question 14

Polyp

Answer 14

Body form for a jellyfish.

Question 15

Hydrostatic skeleton

Answer 15

This is jellyfish’s type of body support. Like a balloon with air against the walls. Instead of air jellyfish have jelly.

Question 16

Gastrovascular

Answer 16

Jellyfish cavity where the jellyfish digests it’s food. Food and waste go out same mouth. Enzymes break down food.

Question 17

Nematocysts

Answer 17

The painful sting of a jellyfish. Small tubes that pierce victims. Causes rash or death.