CPRT21 FINALS COVERAGE Flashcards
Mollusks are animals that belong to Phylum _______.
Mollusca
Mollusks are animals that have very soft bodies and hard exoskeleton.
[True or False]
True
Phylum Chordata is the second largest Phylum of invertebrate animals after the arthropods. [True or False]
False.
The second largest Phylum of invertebrate animals after the arthropods is the Phylum Mollusca.
This mollusk is a major pest of rice.
Golden Apple Snail
The scientific name of the Golden Apple Snail
Pomacea canaliculata Lamarck
[Odd one out]
- Golden Miracle Snail
- Channeled Apple Snail
- Miami Golden
- Golden Pomacea
Golden Pomacea
[True or False]
The golden apple snail is a voracious specialist feeder on semi-aquatic or aquatic plants.
False
The golden apple snail is a voracious generalist feeder on semi-aquatic or aquatic plants.
[Odd One Out]
- Bivalvia
- Aplacophora
- Scaphopoda
- Nautiloidea
Nautiloidea
Gastropods are source of food, jewelry, and some are pests like some species of saltwater snails.
[T/F]
False.
Gastropods are source of food, jewelry, and some are pests like some species of freshwater snails.
Class Gastropoda consist about ___% of the Phylum Mollusca.
a) 9%
b) 8%
c) 10%
d) 7%
8%
Apple snails are mollusks that belong to the ___________ family.
Ampullariidae
Snails that belong the Ampullariidae family are usually saltwater snails, but the golden apple snail is an exemption.
[T/F]
False.
Golden apple snails are mollusks that belong to the Ampullariidae family, and are usually freshwater snails.
The local name of Pomacea canaliculata Lamarck.
Golden Kuhol / Kuhol
It is the term used for the rough tongue that the golden apple snail uses to scrape plant surfaces.
Radula
The golden apple snail prefers to feed on young plant parts because they are soft and would be easily be scraped by their rough tongue.
[T/F]
True
Aside from feeding on aquatic and semi-aquatic plants, the golden apple snail also feed on decomposing organic matter.
[T/F]
True
[Odd one out]
a) Eleocharis dulces
b) Cyperus corymbosus
c) Pistia stratiotes
d) Sechium edule
d) Sechium edule
Common factor: Plants that the golden apple snail will feed on. Sechium edule is chayote.
[Odd One Out]
a) Laos
b) South America
c) Cambodia
d) Malaysia
b) South America
The golden apple snail is indigenous. Instead, it came from South America.
[T/F]
True
Which of the following is not a characteristic damage of the golden apple snail?
a) Missing hills
b) Cut stems
c) White substance on leaves
d) Floating leaves
c) White substance on leaves.
True of False
The golden apple snail was endorsed officially by the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic resources in the Philippines as a rural livelihood project.
False
The golden apple snail was endorsed by the Department of Agriculture.
True or False
The snail was cultured into cement tanks, managed ponds, and backyard soil pits.
True
True or False
The golden apple snails escaped to the irrigation systems and waterways of different regions due to negligence.
True
Out of 3 million hectares of rice fields, how many hectares were infested by hte kuhol?
1.2 to 1.6 hectares
True or False
The size of the golden apple snail is determiend the availability of food.
True
True or False
The golden apple snail is hermaphroditic and monoecious.
False
The golden apple snail is gonochoristic and dioecious.
Analogy
Female: Concave
Male: ____________.
Convex.
The shell of the female kuhol has a concave operculum while the male kuhol has a convex operculum.
True or False
The male kuhol has a shell with an extended lip and the tip of the shell is darker in color than the females’.
False
The male kuhol has an extended shell lip and has a light color in its apex.
The female kuhol has a straight shell opening and the apex is dark in color.
Female shell: curves inward
Male shell: _____________.
Male shell: curves outward
The number of days during the incubation period of the life cycle of the golden apple snail.
7-14 days
Number of days between the hatchling stage and the juvenile stage.
15-25 days
Number of days between the juvenila stage and the adult stage.
Golden Apple Snail
45-59 days
True or False
The golden apple snail is very prolific.
True
The order of bats
Order Chiroptera
The order of deer and wild pigs
Order Artiodactyla
Order of rabbits
Order Lagomorpha
Order of monkeys, lemurs, and apes
Order Primates
Animals that belong to this order are known to as ‘gnawing mammals’
Order Rodentia
What are the animals that belong to order Rodentia?
Rats / Rodents
What are the animals that belong to order Artiodactyla?
Deer and wild pigs
What are the animals that belong to Order Lagomorpha?
Rabbits
What are the animals that belong to order Chiroptera?
Bats
The body covering of birds
Feathers
The term used for the youngs of birds
Nestlings
Nestlings are initially helpless, naked, and must be fed by the maternal parents.
True or False?
True
What are the common names of ** Lonchura malacca **?
- Black-headed munia
- Chestnut munia
- Weaver bird
- Maya