Protists, Plants, and Porifera

What is the part of the sponge that allows water to enter?

• Ostia
• Mesenchyme
• spongocoel
• osculum

Which part of the sponge body is a large opening at the top of the central cavity through which water leaves the sponge?

• Ostia
• Meenchyme
• Spongecoel
• Osculum

Sponges eat by

• bottom feeding
• filter feeding particles from the water
• scaveging
• they don't eat

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

The ability of a sponge to regrow lost parts is called

• regeneration
• budding
• somatic embryogenesis
• autotrophism

Because sponges cannot move around they are considered ______. 

• sessile
• senile
• sedementary
• spongin

Sponges feed by ______ particles out of the water column as it passes through their pores. 

• filtering
• suspending
• consuming
• eating

cells have sticky, funnel-shaped collar to collect food particles and a flagellum that creates a water current

• amoebocyte
• ostiocyte
• pinacocyte
• choanocyte

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

skeleton structures made of silica or calcium carbonate 

• spicules
• spongin
• sessile
• something

Asexual sponge reproduction where a piece of the adult sponge breaks off and settles in a new area growing to adulthood.

• broadcast spawning
• branching
• budding
• forcast spawning

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Which of the following is the correct description of how Porifera get food?

• They hunt and capture prey using tetacles
• They surround food particles using cytoplasmic extensions
• They secrete digestive enzymes and absorb the nutrients
• They are suspension feeder that filter food particles out of the water