Concepts

Question 0

Acoelomate animals:

Answer 0

Planaria

Question 1

Coelomate animals:

Answer 1

Humans
Star fish
Earthworms
Spiders

Question 2

Pseudocoelomate animals:

Answer 2

Roundworm

Question 3

What type of symmetry so the following have:
Starfish
Earthworm 
Sea anemone
Spider

Answer 3

Radial
Bilateral
Radial
Bilateral

Question 4

Animals with a closed circulatory system:

Answer 4

Earthworms

Humans

Question 5

Animals with open circulatory systems:

Answer 5

Grasshoppers

Crayfish

Question 6

Protonephridia is apart of what system?

Answer 6

Excretory

Question 7

Lateral lines are apart of what system?

Answer 7

Nervous

Question 8

Ganglia is apart of what system?

Answer 8

Nervous

Question 9

Radula Is apart of what system?

Answer 9

Digestive

Question 10

Give an example of a Monotreme?

Answer 10

Duck-billed platypus

Question 11

Give an example of a Marsupial:

Answer 11

Kangaroo

Question 12

Give an example of a placental mammal

Answer 12

Human

Question 13

Describe 4 adaptations possessed by birds that better them to fly:

Answer 13

Feathers
Bones
Air sac
Single organs

Question 14

Distinguish between endothermic and ectothermic

Answer 14

Endothermic - regulate their body temp. using metabolism

Ectothermic - regulate body temp. by absorbing heat energy from the environment

Question 15

What’s the function of a “pit” on a pit viper?

Answer 15

It’s a sensory organ on the head that can “see” infrared. It allows the viper to follow its prey in dark conditions

Question 16

List 3 pit vipers found in South Carolina

Answer 16

Rattlesnakes
Cottonmouth/water moccasin
Copperhead

Question 17

Describe how the water vascular system of an echinoderm functions.

Answer 17

Water enters the tube feet then travels through the radial canals. It is released on the dorsal side of the animal.

Question 18

What does the water vascular system do?

Answer 18

Controls water pressure and allows the echinoderm to pump water through its body for respiration and locomotion

Question 19

Describe how the Amoebocyte functions in the digestive process of a sponge

Answer 19

Food particles are engulfed via phagocytosis and transferred to Amoebocyte. The Amoebocyte transfers nutrients to other cells of the sponge

Question 20

Describe how choanocytes function in the digestive process of a sponge

Answer 20

The beating of flagella lets Choanocytes create a current that draws water in. Food particles are then engulfed via phagocytosis

Question 21

Give the advantages of an alternation of generation between the medusa and polyp stages seen on the Cnidarians

Answer 21

It allows for both sexual and asexual reproduction as well as mobile and more stationary stages

Question 22

Describe the 3 major parts of a mollusc’s body

Answer 22

Muscular foot
Visceral mass
Mantle

Question 23

List 4 major characteristics that all chordates must posses

Answer 23

Dorsal, hollow nerve cord
Notochord
Gill slits
Post-anal tail