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Marine Sci 7
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12th Grade
12/13/2008

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the portugeses man of war is a dangerious colonial
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hydroid
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an adult sea anemone lives as an attached
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polyp
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members of two different species involved in mutually beneficial relationshops are called
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symbiosis
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the ciliated swimming larva of a jellyfish is called
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planula
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the mass between the two membranes of the medusa is called the
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mesoglea
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the jellyfishs umbrella like shaped structure is the
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medusa
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the stinging cells inside tentacles are called
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cnidoblasts
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the name for the algea that live inside the polyp is
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zooanthellae
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contains cnioblasts to imobilize prey is phylum
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Cnidaria
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T or F:
Animals are incapable of synthesizing their own food
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True
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the inner membrane of the medusa of a jellyfish is the
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gastrodermis
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what kind of reproduction is illustrated in the life cycle of a jellyfish?
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both asexual and sexual
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which statement is incorrect regarding the life cycle of the jellyfish?
- the polyp stafe lives attached to a substrate
- the medusa drifts among other plankton
- all stages of development are free-swimming
- the free swimming and sessile stages alternate
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-all stages of development are free-swimming
- the free-swimming and sessile stages alternate
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during which two stages does the embryonic devleopment take place in the life cycle of a jellyfih?
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Ciliated larva and young polyp
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a jellyfish responds to external stimuli through the use of its
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nerve net
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Corals and jellyfish are classified togehter mainly because they have
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stinging tentacles
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the large reef-buliding corals grow only in tropical waters because of the warm temperatues and
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plentiful sunlight
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which of the following organism with tentacles is least related to the others?
- sea anemone
-octopus
-brain coral
- portugeese man of war
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octopus
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all of the follwoing are functions of the jellyfish medusa except:
- reproduction
- locomotion
- protection
- ingestion
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protection
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the cnidarians are characterized by the presence of stinging tentacles and a
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saclike digestive tract
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the basic structure of the coral animal is the
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polyp
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the beneficial living arrangement between the coral polyps and the tiny algea within them is known as the
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symbiosis
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which of the following planktonis in its adult stage?
- sea anemone
- elkhorn coral
- hydriod
- jellyfish
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jellyfish
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in cnidarians, oxygen and carbon dioxide gas exchage occurs through the
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cell membrane
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the cnidarians have tentacles that grow in a ring arounf a central mouth, an arrangement known as
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radial symmetry
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what can trigger a jellyfish to fire its " stinger"
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mechanical and chemical stimulus
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