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Phyla Porifera and Cnidaria

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What flagellated cells help move water throughout sponges?

a)

spicules

b)

planula

c)

archaeocytes

d)

choanocytes

2.

Where water is expelled from sponges.

a)

ostia

b)

oscula

c)

pinacocytes

d)

amoebocytes

3.

Most sponges belong to the following class:

a)

Porifera

b)

Cnidaria

c)

Calcarea

d)

Demospongiae

4.

Animals in Porifera are sessile animals, meaning

a)

they don't move

b)

they don't eat

c)

they don't reproduce

d)

they are poisonous

5.

The skeletons in phylum Porifera are made out of

a)

collagen, muscle, and protein.

b)

carbohydrates, mesohyl,and sucrose.

c)

they have no skeleton.

d)

mesohyl, collagen, and spicules.

6.

What is the function of the sponges' spicules?

a)

structure

b)

flexibility

c)

eating

d)

reproduction

7.

Most sponges are monoecious. What does this mean?

a)

They only produce oocytes (egg cells).

b)

They only produce spermatocytes (sperm cells).

c)

They produce both oocytes and spermatocytes.

d)

They don't reproduce.

8.

What type of symmetry do sponges typically have?

a)

Asymmetry

b)

Bilateral symmetry

c)

Radial symmetry

d)

Spherical symmetry

9.

To which class does the Portuguese man-o-war belong?

a)

Scyphozoa

b)

Anthozoa

c)

Cnidaria

d)

Hydrozoa

10.

Which Cnidarian lives in freshwater?

a)

coral

b)

hydra

c)

box jelly

d)

Aurelia

11.

What is the primary region of digestion and circulation in Cnidarians?

a)

gastrovascular cavity

b)

mesoglea

c)

tentacles

d)

cnidocytes

12.

What are the stinging cells in cnidarians?

a)

spicules

b)

mesoglea

c)

cnidocytes

d)

choanocytes

13.

How do Hydra reproduce?

a)

binary fission

b)

sexual reproduction

c)

regeneration

d)

budding

14.

Anthozoans stay in the _________ stage.

a)

medusa

b)

sexual

c)

polyp

d)

Porifera

15.

After fertilization occurs in Cnidarians, a ___________ forms.

a)

medusa

b)

planula

c)

polyp

d)

pinacocyte