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Phylum Cnidaria

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What class does the common jellyfish belong to?

a)

Class Anthozoa

b)

Class Hydrazoa

c)

Class Scyphozoa

d)

Class Cubozoa

2.

What class does the sea wasp belong to?

a)

Class Hydrazoa

b)

Class Cubozoa

c)

Class Anthozoa

d)

Class Scyphozoa

3.

How many cell layers do cnidarians have?

a)

0

b)

1

c)

2

d)

3

4.

What is the "hollow gut" of a cnidarian?

a)

polyp

b)

gastrovascular cavity

c)

mesoglea

d)

cnidocyte

5.

True or False: Cnidarians do not have a central nervous system.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

How do cnidarians absorb oxygen from the water and expel carbon dioxide?

a)

Through their tentacles

b)

Through diffusion

c)

By using their nematocysts

d)

By using their respiratory organs

7.

How are nervous responses in cnidarians controlled?

a)

by their gastrovascular cavity

b)

through the mesoglea

c)

by the nerve net

d)

through the filaments in their nematocysts

8.

Through what 2 parts of a cnidarian's body do oxygen and carbon dioxide enter and exit?

a)

through its lungs and their gills

b)

through the nerve net and the gastrovascular cavity

c)

through its cnidocytes and their surface cells

d)

through the gastrovascular cavity and surface cells

9.

How do cnidarians reproduce?

a)

only sexually

b)

only asexually

c)

both sexually and asexually

d)

genetically reproduced in labs

10.

How do medusae generally reproduce?

a)

Adult medusae release their eggs and sperm in the water where fertilization occurs, creating a zygote.

b)

The eggs of a medusa are fertilized inside its body and the medusa gives live birth.

c)

The medusa self-fertilizes and the medusa lays shelled eggs

d)

The medusa reproduces through binary fission.

11.

True or False: All cnidarians are sessile.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

How do medusae move?

a)

by opening and closing their gastrovascular cavity

b)

by swimming and expelling water jets through contracting their bodies

c)

by alternating contact points on the substrate and performing somersaults

d)

They don't move. Medusae always remain sessile.

13.

Which part of a cnidarian's body is waste dispelled from?

a)

the gastrodermis

b)

the tentacles

c)

the mesoglea

d)

the gastrovascular cavity

14.

Based on their diet, cnidarians are _____.

a)

herbivores

b)

omnivores

c)

carnivores

d)

photosynthetic

15.

What part of a cnidarian's body allows them to capture/kill their prey?

a)

the epidermis

b)

the polyp

c)

the nematocysts

d)

the nerve net

16.

What type of symmetry do cnidarians demonstrate?

a)

Bilateral symmetry

b)

Radial symmetry

17.

What life stage follows directly after the planula stage?

a)

the zygote stage

b)

the young medusa stage

c)

the bastula stage

d)

the polyp stage

18.

True or False: Cnidarians generally undergo two life stages: a polyp stage and a medusa stage

a)

True

b)

False

19.

What body type does this cnidarian possess?

a)

Polyp

b)

Medusa

20.

What body type does this cnidarian posses?

a)

Polyp

b)

Medusa