WorksheetsZoology Ch. 9 Echinoderms
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
This group of echinoderms differs from other groups by being attached to a substrate during a substantial part of their lives:
Echinoids
Holothuroids
Crinoids
Ophiuroids
This venomous animal stings using petal like pedicellariae:
Crown-of-thorns sea star
Long-spined sea urchin
Sunflower sea star
Flower urchin
The delicate hollow tubes that project from the coelomic cavity to the exterior, through which gas exchange and waste excretion take place are called:
Papulae
Ampullae
Polian vesicles
Pedicellariae
The side of an echinoderm opposite of the mouth is called the:
oral surface
aboral surface
anterior surface
posterior surface
Echinoderms are considered:
Acoelomate deuterostomes
Acoelomate protostomes
Coelomate deuterostomes
Coelomate protostomes
How many extinct classes of echinoderms are there?
5
10
15
20
What is the name of the long digestive glands in each arm of a sea star?
intestines
pyloric caeca
salivary glands
tiedemann’s bodies
When a sea cucumber expels its internal organs to confuse predators it is called:
dessication
dissipation
evisceration
expiation
What is the nickname for areas that have been overgrazed by sea urchins and made devoid of kelp?
kelp forests
kelp deserts
urchin barrens
urchin desserts
The fused, rigid endoskeleton of echinoids is called a(n):
test
quiz
ossicle
lantern
Sea stars reproduce by this method in which the eggs and sperm are released into the water from the male and female at the same time:
regeneration
free spawning
parthenogenesis
open budding
Which echinoderm class name means "snake tail"?
Asteroidea
Crinoidea
Echinoidea
Holothuroidea
Ophiuroidea
Which echinoderm class name means "water polyp"?
Asteroidea
Crinoidea
Echinoidea
Holothuroidea
Ophiuroidea
The water vascular system is best decribed as what kind of system?
skeletal
muscular
hydraulic
nervous
Toxic, sticky, white strands ejected when a sea cucumber is irritated are called:
tracheal tubes
ovarian tubes
cuvierian tubules
malpighian tubules
What type of symmetry is seen in adult echinoderms?
Asymmetry
Bilateral symmetry
Radial symmetry
What type of symmetry is seen in larval echinoderms?
Asymmetry
Bilateral symmetry
Radial symmetry
Echinoderms are bottom-dwelling animals that live on the ocean floor, the term we use
for this is:
Aphotic
Benthic
Pelagic
Sedentary
The small, hard, white pieces inside of a sand dollar are its:
bones
teeth
offspring
spines
The jaw-like mechanism that echinoids use to grind their food is called:
Watson's alarm
Darwin's beak
Aristotle's lantern
Socrates' torch
What is the nickname for areas that have been overgrazed by sea urchins and made devoid of kelp?
Kelp forest
Urchin barren
Benthic desert
Desolate devoid
