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Invertebrates

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Invertebrates are animals
a)
with a backbone
b)
without a backbone
2.
I am spiny, have a water vascular system with tube feet, radial symmetry, and am called a brittle star.
a)
Mullosk
b)
Arthropod
c)
Echinoderm
d)
Cnidarian
3.
I am an arachnid, have four pairs of legs, and a body with two sections.
a)
Echinoderm
b)
Arthropod
c)
Annelid
d)
Porifera
4.
I have a soft-body, a hard shell, and live on land and water.  What am I?
a)
Mollusk
b)
Arthropod
c)
Echinoderm
d)
Cnidarian
5.
I have a hard exoskeleton, a segmented body, pairs of jointed appendages, and live on land and water.  I am a crab.  What is my phylum?
a)
Mollusk
b)
Arthropod
c)
Echinoderm
d)
Cnidarian
6.
Echinoderms have the ability to regenerate body parts.
a)
False
b)
True
7.
What do bees and butterflies help spread from plant to plant?
a)
honey
b)
seed
c)
pollen
8.
All spiders have ____ legs?
a)
6
b)
7
c)
8
9.
All insects have _____ legs.
a)
6
b)
8
c)
10
10.
Ants live together in ______?
a)
hives
b)
colonies
c)
dens
d)
groups
11.
The tarantula belongs to which phylum?
a)
Echinodermata
b)
Arthropoda
c)
Molluska
d)
Annelida
12.
Sponges, segmented worms, echinoderms, arthropods, and mollusks belong in which group?
a)
endothermic
b)
ectothermic
c)
vertebrate
d)
invertebrate
13.
All animals obtain ___________ and ___________ for energy.
a)
food; oxygen
b)
carbon dioxide; water
c)
carbon dioxide; nitrogen
d)
nitrogen; oxygen
14.
All animals have the ability to _________ and _____________. 
a)
hibernate; migrate
b)
eat; reproduce
c)
move; lay eggs
d)
make their own food; use food for energy
15.
A common characteristic of all animals is:
a)
exoskeleton
b)
multicellular
c)
single cellular
d)
venom
16.
A common characteristic of endothermic animals is
a)
exoskeleton
b)
endoskeleton
c)
keep internal conditions in balance
d)
beaks
17.
What filters food and eliminates waste from the water it lives in?
a)
sponge
b)
segmented worm
c)
arthropod
d)
mollusk
18.
Between 90-95% of all animals on earth can be classified as _____.
a)
invertebrates
b)
vertebrates
c)
reptiles
d)
mammals
19.
Which of the following animals is a segmented worm?
a)
caterpillar
b)
snake
c)
eel
d)
leech
20.
Sponges use pores to 
a)
move from place to place.
b)
filter food from the water.
c)
defend themselves.
21.
what type of habitat does a sponge live in
a)
ocean
b)
soil
c)
trees
d)
ground
22.
sponges have what type of skeleton
a)
exo
b)
hydro
c)
endo
d)
all of the above
23.
Which class of animal is a snail?
a)
echinoderm
b)
fish
c)
segmented worm
d)
mollusk
24.
Are there more vertebrates or invertebrates living on Earth?
a)
vertebrates
b)
invertebrates
25.
What are the common characteristics of all animals have?
a)
heart, tail, bones, and fur
b)
multicellular, keep internal conditions in balance, breathe, move, and reproduce
c)
monkey, donkey, keys, and car
26.
The word arthropod means _______________.
a)
"large brain."
b)
"jointed foot."
c)
"spiny skin."
d)
"paralyzing toxin."
27.
What does the term echinoderm mean?
a)
"jointed limbs"
b)
"spiny skinned"
c)
"endoskeleton"
d)
"shiny tube foot."
28.
Is the picture a vertebrate or invertebrate?
a)
Vertebrate
b)
Invertebrate
29.
This picture is an example of which group of invertebrates?
a)
Segmented worms
b)
Fish
c)
Sponges
d)
Arthropods
30.
Organisms that CANNOT make their own food are called heterotrophs.
a)
True
b)
False