Marine Invertebrates

Classification / Taxonomy

• A way of organizing organisms into groups based on shared traits and common ancestry

• A way of grouping organisms in similar areas

• The rating of animal awesomeness

• How invertebrates pay their taxes

The 8 levels of classification, most broad to most specific.

• Domain, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom, Species
• Domain, Species, Kingdom, Genus, Phylum, Family, Class, Order
• Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
• Order, Kingdom, Species, Domain, Phylum, Family, Class, Genus

Phylum Porifera is known as 

• "stinging cells"
• "Tentacles"
• "Cleaners"
• "Sponges"

What does the word echinoderm mean?

• Striped skin

• Spiny skin

• Spiky skin

• Soft skin

Phylum Cnidaria is known as 

• "stinging cells"
• "Tentacles"
• "Cleaners"
• "Sponges"

• Bivalve

• Gastropod

• Cephalopod

• None of the above

• Bivalve

• Gastropod

• Cephalopod

• None of the above

• Bivalve

• Gastropod

• Cephalopod

• None of the above

all have radial symmetry

• univalve
• bivalve
• head-footed
• echinoderms

Which part of the Mollusk body is specialized for burrowing, feeding, and movement?

• trochophores
• visceral mass
• mantle
• foot