Chapter 14 Flashcards
True/False
The water vascular system of sea stars opens to the outside through the madreporite
True
A complex chewing apparatus found in many urchins is the ________
Aristotle’s lantern
True/False
The ambulance also grooves of asteroids are closed
False
Acornwoms
Have gill pores and gill slits
True/False
Hemichordates show relationships to both the echinoderms and the chordates
True
Minute, pincer like _______ are found on the surfaces of many sea stars
Pedicellariae
On the inner end of each tube foot is a muscular sac called an ______
Ampulla
True/False
Echinoderms have the ability to osmoregulate regardless of the salinity of the water and are thus found in marine and brackish waters
False
Sea stars have light sensitive organs, the _____, at the ends of their arms
Eyespot
The ophiuroids have no
All of the above
- papulae
- anus
- pedicellariae
The larvae of Echinoderms have _____ symmetry
Bilateral
A unique characteristic of Echinoderms is
All of the above
- pedicellariae
- the endoskeleton of plates and ossicles
- the water-vascular system
Sea stars
Use their tube feet for locomotion