Worms

Question 1

What is the function of the Clitellum?

Answer 1

It helps in mating.

Question 2

What is the function of the Setae?

Answer 2

They allow the worm to push against the dirt.

Question 3

Where is the buccal pouch?

Answer 3

It’s the inside of the mouth.

Question 4

What does the pharynx do?

Answer 4

It adds moisture and enzymes to the food to begin digestion.

Question 5

What does the crop do?

Answer 5

Stores food.

Question 6

What is the function of the gizzard?

Answer 6

Grind up the food.

Question 7

What is the function of the intestine?

Answer 7

Absorb nutrients.

Question 8

What is the function of the cerebral ganglion?

Answer 8

It’s the brain.

Question 9

What does the seminal vesicle do?

Answer 9

Make sperm.

Question 10

What does the seminal receptacle do?

Answer 10

Receive and hold sperm.

Question 11

What allows the worm to push against the dirt?

Answer 11

Setae

Question 12

What organ adds enzymes to the food to begin digestion?

Answer 12

Pharynx

Question 13

What organ stores food?

Answer 13

Crop

Question 14

What organ grinds the food up?

Answer 14

Gizzard

Question 15

What organ acts as the worm’s brain?

Answer 15

Cerebral ganglion

Question 16

What organ removes waste from the worm?

Answer 16

Nephridia

Question 17

What does the septa do?

Answer 17

Separate the segments

Question 18

What is the function of the Nephridia?

Answer 18

Acts as kidney, removing waste from the worm

Question 19

Where are the eggs produced?

Answer 19

Ovary

Question 20

Where do they go after the ovary?

Answer 20

Oviduct

Question 21

After the oviduct, where do the eggs travel?

Answer 21

Uterus

Question 22

What happens to the eggs in the uterus?

Answer 22

Fertilized

Question 23

What does the testis do?

Answer 23

Make sperm

Question 24

What does the vas deferens do?

Answer 24

Store sperm

Question 25

What is the scientific name of the earthworm?

Answer 25

Lumbricus terrestris

Question 26

What is the scientific name of the parasitic worm?

Answer 26

Ascaris lumbricoides

Question 27

What is the name of the organ that is circled?

Answer 27

Buccal Pouch

(Inside of the mouth)

Question 28

What is the organ that is circled?

Answer 28

Cerebral Ganglion

(Brain)

Question 29

What is the name of the circled organ?

Answer 29

Crop

(Stores food)

Question 30

What is the name of the organ with a line on it?

Answer 30

Dorsal Blood Vessel

(Carries the blood through the body)

Question 31

What is the name of the organ under the dashed line?

Answer 31

Esophagus

(Carries food from pharynx to the crop)

Question 32

What is the name of the circled organ?

Answer 32

Gizzard

(Grinds up food)

Question 33

fWhat is the name of the organ(s) under the lines?

Answer 33

Heart

(Pumps blood)

Question 34

What is the name of the circled organ?

Answer 34

Intestine

(Absorbs nutrients)

Question 35

What is the name of the circled organ?

Answer 35

Nephridia

(Filters waste from the blood like our kidneys)

Question 36

What is the name of the circled organ?

Answer 36

Pharynx

(First part of the digestive system)

Question 37

What is the name of the circled organ?

Answer 37

Seminal Recepticle

(Receives sperm)

Question 38

What is the name of the circled organ?

Answer 38

Seminal Visicle

(Stores sperm)

Question 39

What is the name of the lines?

Answer 39

Septa

(Divides the worm segments)