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Porifera Vocabulary

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What moves water through the sponge?

a)

Collar cell

b)

Flagella

c)

Porocyte

d)

Amebocyte

2.

Sponges have radial symmetry.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

The large opening at the top of the sponge is called the

a)

Osculum

b)

Porocyte

c)

Spicule

d)

Spongocoel

4.

Which of the following is NOT what a sponge skeleton can be made of?

a)

Spongin

b)

Calcium carbonate

c)

Sodium chloride

d)

Silica

5.

Sponges can only reproduce asexually through fragmentation.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Describe the water flow through the sponge.

a)

In osculum out porocytes

b)

Out osculum in porocytes

c)

In porocytes out osculum

d)

Out porocytes in osculum

7.

Name of D (opening at top)

a)

Osculum

b)

Ostia

c)

Choanocytes

d)

Incurrent Pore

8.

Water exits the sponge here

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

9.
Sponges get their food by 
a)
going through photosynthesis
b)
decomposing it
c)
sponges do not eat
d)
filter feeding
10.
Most sponges are hermaphrodites.  What does this mean?
a)
sponges can produce their own food
b)
sponges can produce both eggs and sperm
c)
sponges cannot reproduce
d)
sponges can swim around
11.
What is the name of the phylum sponges belong to?
a)
mammals
b)
chordate
c)
cnidarians
d)
Porifera
12.
___________ are tiny hard particles that give a sponge support and can provide protection when they stick out of a sponge.
a)
spongin
b)
bones
c)
buds
d)
spicules
13.
Sponges have many pores or ______ to circulate water. 
a)
osculum
b)
holes
c)
ostia
d)
spongin
14.
What is true about sponges?
a)
They have organs
b)
They have bilateral symmetry
c)
They have a true coelom
d)
They are animals
15.

The cells inside the sponge that have flagella (and absorb food) are called...

a)

Collar cells

b)

Flagella

c)

Osculum

d)

Pores

16.

Structure C is a

a)

choanocyte

b)

amoeboid cell

c)

spicule

d)

pinacocyte

17.

Sponges are primarily sessile organisms. What does this mean?

a)

They live permanently in one palce

b)

They move around their whole life

18.

Which of the following type of cell digests and distributes food for the sponge?

a)

Choanocytes

b)

Amoebocytes

c)

Endodermal cells

d)

Epidermal cells

19.

Which of the following terms defines how sponges can regrow lost body parts?

a)

Budding

b)

Symmetry

c)

Choanocytes

d)

Regeneration

20.
Which part of the sponge body is the central cavity that leads to the osculum?
a)
Ostia
b)
Mesenchyme
c)
Spongocoel
d)
Osculum
21.
Asexual sponge reproduction where a piece of the adult sponge breaks off and settles in a new area growing to adulthood.
a)
broadcast spawning
b)
branching
c)
budding
d)
forcast spawning