Echinoderm Test Flashcards
Where are the light sensitive eyespots of a sea star located?
Small tentacles at the tip of each arm
What joins the ossicles together on echinoderms?
CT and muscle fibers
Gas exchange in a sea star takes place through which of the following two structures?
Tube feet, skin gills
For what purposes do brittle stars use their arms?
Take food into their mouths, to crawl rapidly along the bottom
How do brittle stars free themselves from predators?
Autonomy
Organisms in the class Echinoidea contain these structures, which are sometimes poisonous for protection?
Spines
5 toothed mouth called aristotles lantern is located in which organism?
Sea urchin
What are the tentacles surrounding the mouth of a sea cucumber used for?
Feeding
The test is the internal skeleton for which organism?
Sea urchin
Which of these are the most highly mobile echinoderms?
Brittle or serpent stars
Which echinoderm rolls up into a ball to travel in the ocean surge, and then opens up to feed?
Basket stars
Sea cucumbers have the ability to spit out a portion of their intestines to distract predators, what’s this called?
Evisceration
Podia is another name for
Tube feet
Circulation of water through a sea star accomplishes what 3 things?
Movement, excretion of waste, gas exchange
Asteroids feed on which of the following?
Bivalves
Sea stars use what for movement?
Tube feet
Sea stars use this system to circulate water through their bodies
Hydro vascular
With what do sea stars pry open the shells of scallops, clams, mussels?
Tube feet
Calcareous plates fused to form the skeleton of most Echinoderms are called?
Ossicles
Where are tube feet housed?
Ambulacral grooves
Small pitcher like structures of Echinoderms, used for collecting food, protection, and sometime camouflage
Pedicellariae
Stone canal, ring canal, radial canal, all part of what body system of Echinoderms?
Hydro vascular
Echinoderms have what type of skeleton
Internal