Phylum Porifera

What phylum is a sea sponge found in?

• Phylum Mollusca

• Phylum Cnidaria

• Phylum Porifera

• Phylum Arthropoda

Water enters the sponge through what?

• Ostia

• Osculum

• Amoebocyte

• Spicules

Sponges are mostly _________. This means they can produce both male and female reproductive cells.

• Homeostasis

• Gendered

• Hermaphroditic

• Hermes

These structures make up the sponge's skeleton. They provide structure and rigidity.

• Choanocytes.

• Amoebocytes

• Spicules

• Porocytes

Phylum Porifera is a division of the _________ Kingdom.

• Fungi

• Animalia

• Plantae

• Protista

What characteristics let us know that a sponge is an animal?

• Cellulose Cell Wall, Autotrophic, Sessile, Multicellular

• Chitonous Cell Wall, Heterotroph, Sessile, Mostly Multicellular

• No cell wall, Heterotroph, Multicellular

• Cell wall or No Cell wall, Heterotroph or Autotroph, Unicellular

How do sponges reproduce?

• Only Sexually

• Only Asexually

• Asexually and Sexually

• Only through fragmentation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Tube-like cells which line the pores, ostia, present on the body wall of sponges

• Spicules

• Porocytes

• Amoebocyte

• Choanocytes

Phylum Porifera is a phylum of:

• Vertebrates

• Invertebrates

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Can differentiate into any cell and help with digestion

• Spicules

• Choanocytes

• Amoebocytes

• Porocytes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-7