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Invertebrates Flashcards

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1
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What can be classifies into different groups?

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Invertebrates

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What are the different groups of invertebrates?

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Poriferans, Cnidarians, Worms, Mollusks, Echinoderms, & Arthropods

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What are the simplest invertebrates?

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Poriferans or Sponges

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These invertebrates belong phylum Porifera. What are these?

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Poriferans

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What does the word porifera mean?

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“pore-bearing”

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What is covered with many pores for tiny openings?

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Sponge

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What are some of the most unusual living thing found on Earth?

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Sponges

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What are invertebrates animals that usually have no body symmetry and never have tissues of organs?

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Sponges

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What is the thin, spiny structure that form the skeleton of many sponges?

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Spicules

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What is composed of many invertebrate animals with brilliant colors and strange shapes?

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Cnidarian

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What are examples of this phylum?

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Jellyfishes, Corals, Hydras, and Sea anemones

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These have two basic forms. What are these?

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Vase-shaped polyp and Bow-shaped Medusa

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What name comes from a Greek word meaning “to sting’?

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Cnidaria

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What has a hollow central cavity with only one opening called “mouth”?

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Cnidaria

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What is the special stinging structures that all cnidarians have?

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Nematocyst

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These are used to stun or kill prey. What is this?

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Nematocyst

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What are soft-bodied organisms?

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Coral

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What do they build using minerals in the water?

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Hard and protective cover of limestone

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What is an underwater ecosystem in which diverse kinds of organisms live?

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Reef

20
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What are the most common cnidarians?

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Jellyfishes

21
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What can deliver a painful poison through their nematocysts located on their tentacles?

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Jellyfishes

22
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What cnidarians use these stinging structures to catch their prey?

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Jellyfishes

23
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What are cnidarians that spend their lives as polyps?

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Hydras

24
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They live in freshwater. What are these?

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Hydras

25
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What can move around with a somersault movement?

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Hydras

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What are classified into three main phyla?

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Flatworms, roundworms, & segmented worms

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