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Biology
9th Grade
03/23/2012

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Term
Cephalopod means __________.
Definition
"headfoot"
Term
How many years ago do scientist feel that all major animal body plans were in existence?
Definition
543 million
Term
Sponges are in the kingdom ______.
Definition
Animalia
Term
The animal kingdom consist of 3 germ layers. Which layer has the integument and nervous system?
Definition
Ectoderm
Term
What is the Phylum that is the most simple or primitive?
Definition
Porifera
Term
Sponges are in the phylum ________.
Definition
Porifera
Term
There are 3 types of body cavities. What type of body cavity do Coelomates have?
Definition
True coelom
Term
What group of animals may have been the first to develop organs?
Definition
acoelamate
Term
When do sponges release gemmules?
Definition
after adult sponge dies
Term
An irregular body shape is called _____.
Definition
asymmetry
Term
Ninety percent of the animals on earth do not have a ______.
Definition
backbone
Term
What type of symmetry is divided along one plane. (Human)
Definition
bilateral
Term
What does coelom mean?
Definition
body cavity
Term
Many invertebrates can regenerate _____.
Definition
body parts
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Tiny sponges growing from the main body of the sponge are called ______.
Definition
buds
Term
Why are adult sponges said to be sessile animals?
Definition
can't move
Term
What creates water currents for circulation and feeding for a sponge?
Definition
choanocytes or collar cells
Term
What category of bilateral symmetrical animals does a human fit into?
Definition
coelomate
Term
What is the job of the amebocyte in a sponge?
Definition
distributes food and oxygen
Term
Once cell division starts, what is the organism called?
Definition
embryo
Term
The animal kingdom consist of 3 germ layers. Which layer has the digestive system?
Definition
endoderm
Term
What is it called when an animal has an internal skeleton?
Definition
endoskeleton
Term
What is the hard covering on the outside of the body of some animals?
Definition
exoskeleton
Term
There are 3 types of body cavities. What type of body cavity do Pseudocoelomates have?
Definition
false coelom
Term
How do sponges acquire their food?
Definition
filter
Term
What part of the sponge helps pull in water?
Definition
flagella
Term
What is a reproductive bud in a sponge?
Definition
gemmule
Term
What happens to most animals once the juvenile or larval stage has passed?
Definition
grow and develop into adults
Term
What consumes or eats other organisms?
Definition
heterotroph
Term
One characteristic ALL animals share?
Definition
heterotrophic
Term
What layer of the gastrula is the endoderm found?
Definition
inside
Term
What type of animals typically has an exoskeleton?
Definition
invertebrates
Term
The animal kingdom consist of 3 germ layers. Which layer has all other systems except integument, nervous, and digestive systems?
Definition
mesoderm
Term
What is the jellylike layer in a sponge that is between the gastrodermis and epidermis?
Definition
mesophyll
Term
What layer of the gastrula is the mesoderm found?
Definition
middle
Term
When a crab grows, it grows new skin which is called ________.
Definition
molting
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There are 3 types of body cavities. What type of body cavity do Acoelomates have?
Definition
no coelom
Term
Porifera means ________.
Definition
one hole sac
Term
Where does water exit a sponge?
Definition
osculum
Term
Where does water enter a sponge?
Definition
ostium
Term
What layer of the gastrula is the ectoderm found?
Definition
outside
Term
What did early biologists think sponges were?
Definition
plants
Term
What do most biologists think animals evolved from?
Definition
protist
Term
What type of symmetry is divided along any plane.
Definition
radial
Term
What is an organism that permanently attaches itself to a surface?
Definition
sessile
Term
How do animals reproduce?
Definition
sexually
Term
A hermaphrodite can produce _____ and _____.
Definition
sperm and eggs
Term
What is an example of the Phylum Porifera?
Definition
sponge
Term
Spongin and spicules give the sponge _____?
Definition
support
Term
The world's largest invertebrates live in the sea because the water ________ them.
Definition
supports
Term
How an animals body structure is arranged
is called _________.
Definition
symmetry
Term
Phylum Porifera is the only phylum with no ________.
Definition
symmetry
Term
What is an animal with an endoskeleton (backbone) called?
Definition
vertebrate
Term
Most animals develop from a fertilized cell called a ________.
Definition
zygote
Term
Earthworms are classified as ________.
Definition
annelids
Term
Annelid means__________.
Definition
ringed or segments
Term
What is the "lip" of an earthworm called?
Definition
prostomium
Term
What is the function of the prostomium?
Definition
digging
Term
What are setae?
Definition
bristles
Term
What is the function of the setae?
Definition
moving
Term
What are the internal cross-walls that separate the inside of an earthworm?
Definition
septa
Term
What is the swollen band around the earthworm called?
Definition
clitellum
Term
What is the function of the seminal receptacles in an earthworm?
Definition
stores sperm
Term
What is the function of the seminal vesicles?
Definition
sperm is produced
Term
The earthworm has 5 hearts. What are the hearts called?
Definition
aortic arches
Term
Name the two major blood vessels in earthworms.
Definition
ventral and dorsal
Term
An earthworm has what kind of circulatory system?
Definition
closed
Term
What are 2 kind of parasitic flatworms?
Definition
planarians and flukes
Term
What type of digestive system do flatworms have?
Definition
2 way (goes in and comes out the same way)
Term
Planarians and flukes are called ______.
Definition
flatworms
Term
Why do tapeworms not have a digested system?
Definition
they feed on food digested by their host
Term
What are proglottids in a flatworm?
Definition
reproductive sections
Term
What is the scolex of a flatworm?
Definition
head
Term
Planarian's have fragmentation which means __________.
Definition
splitting into pieces
Term
Mollusks are members of the phylum _____.
Definition
Mollusca
Term
Mollusca are animals well-known for their decorative ___________.
Definition
shells
Term
The most intelligent mollusk is the _____.
Definition
octopus
Term
________are mollusks that live along ocean coastlines.
Definition
Chitons
Term
Chitons creep along slowly on their ______ feet and cling to rocks.
Definition
muscular
Term
The word octopus means ________.
Definition
eight feet
Term
An octupus has a soft body which is called a ________ mass.
Definition
visceral
Term
The soft body of an octupus is covered by a protective layer called a _______.
Definition
mantle
Term
Octopi live in ________.
Definition
dens
Term
In order for an octopus to escape predators it can squirt black _____ and camouflage its body to fit in with its environment.
Definition
ink
Term
The octopus swims by spewing water from its body through a _______.
Definition
siphon
Term
Arthropods are a group of invertebrate animals which means ______.
Definition
jointed appendages
Term
Insects, Arachnids, and crustaceans are 3 main groups of ___________.
Definition
arthropods
Term
Insects have 3 body segments. Head, _____ and abdomen.
Definition
thorax (middle)
Term
_______ have 6 legs and which body segment are they attached to?
Definition
Insects
Term
What are the insect's jaws called?
Definition
mandibles
Term
The openings for respiration in a grasshopper are called __________.
Definition
spiracles
Term
Spiders, mites, scorpions and ticks are examples of ________.
Definition
arachnids
Term
Arachnids have 2 body parts called _____.
Definition
cephalothorax
Term
Arachnids have an ocelli. What does it detect?
Definition
light and dark
Term
Spiders jaws are called _______ and have poison fangs at the tips.
Definition
chelicera
Term
What organ of a spider produces silk for webs?
Definition
spinnerets
Term
Where do crustaceans live?
Definition
water
Term
What are the large claws on crustaceans called?
Definition
chelipeds
Term
Centipedes have long flat bodies and they are _________ and poisonous.
Definition
carnivorous
Term
Millipedes are not poisonous but they have defensive sprays that contain __________.
Definition
hydrochloric acid
Term
Many insects go through developmental stages called _________.
Definition
metamorphosis
Term
The stages in _________ metamorphosis are Egg, Larva, pupa, and adult.
Definition
complete
Term
The stages in ___________metamorphosis are Egg, nymph, and adult.
Definition
incomplete
Term
What stage of an insects life is considered the feeding stage?
Definition
larva
Term
How many body segments does an insect have?
Definition
3
Term
How many body segments does an arachnid have?
Definition
2
Term
What arthropod has pedipalps?
Definition
arachnids
Term
What is a cocoon called?
Definition
chrysalis
Term
_____________ are spiny-skinned invertebrates.
Definition
Echinoderms
Term
Echinoderms have 5 part symmetry called ___________ symmetry.
Definition
pentaradial
Term
The underneath side of echinoderms is called the __________ side.
Definition
oral
Term
The top side of echinoderms is called the __________ side.
Definition
aboral
Term
Echinoderms are slow moving creatures that have a _________ vascular system.
Definition
water
Term
Echinoderms can ____________ missing limbs, arms, spines, and even intestines.
Definition
regenerate
Term
On the central disk of a sea star there is an opening for the water vascular system which is called __________.
Definition
madreporite
Term
On a sea star there are grooves that run down the middle of each arm. What are the grooves called?
Definition
ambulcaral
Term
How do echinoderms move?
Definition
tube foot
Term
Which echinoderm can eject part of its intestines?
Definition
sea cucumber
Term
The 5 tooth like plate of a sea urchin is called the _________.
Definition
Aristotle's lantern
Term
Sea Urchins spines are ___________.
Definition
venomous
Term
Sand dollars live on the sandy sea floor from the interdidal zone down to the ____________.
Definition
subtidal
Term
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Urochordate means ____
Definition
tall chord
Term
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Cephalochordata means _____
Definition
head chord
Term
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Vertebrata means ______
Definition
backbone
Term
All Chordata exhibit 4 exhibits. Dorsal tubular nerve cord, notochord, pharyngial pouches and a ______.
Definition
tail
Term
Sea Squirts and tunicates are examples of the Phylum Chordata and Subphylum ______.
Definition
Urochordata
Term
In the Subphylum Urochordata the notochord does not extend into the _____.
Definition
head
Term
The lancet is an example of the Subphylum__________.
Definition
Cephalochordata
Term
Cephalochordata's have a tail that has blocks of muscles called ___________.
Definition
myotomes
Term
Cephalochordata's have a ________present throughout life and extends into the head region.
Definition
notochord
Term
Subphylum Vertebrata are chordates with a backbone. They exhibit cephalization. Chephal means________.
Definition
head
Term
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Vertebrata:
Class Agnatha means ______.
Definition
without jaw
Term
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Vertebrata:
Class Chondrichthyes means _______.
Definition
cartilage fish
Term
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Vertebrata:
Class Osteichthyes means _______.
Class
Definition
bony fish
Term
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Vertebrata:
Class Amphibi means ________.
Definition
"two lives"
Term
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Vertebrata:
Class Reptilia means ________.
Definition
to creep
Term
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Vertebrata:
Class Aves means________.
Definition
bird
Term
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Vertebrata:
Class Mammalia means ______.
Definition
breast
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