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Marine phyla

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Have asymmetrical body plans

a)

Echinoderm

b)

Cnidaria

c)

Porifera

d)

Mollusca

2.

These have a skeleton of spongin

a)

Cnidaria

b)

Porifera

c)

Mollusca

d)

Echinodermata

3.

Includes jellyfish, coral and anemones

a)

Echinodermata

b)

Cnidaria

c)

Porifera

d)

Mollusca

4.

These have two tissue layers with primitive nerves but no brain.

a)

Cnidaria

b)

Echinodermata

c)

Porifera

d)

Mollusca

5.

First bilateral animals

a)

Cnidara

b)

Echinodermata

c)

Porifera

d)

Platyhelminthes

6.

Has 3 tissue layers and a primitive brain.

a)

Cnidaria

b)

Porifera

c)

Platyhelminthes

d)

Echinodermata

7.

Includes earthworms and leeches

a)

Echinodermata

b)

Annelida

c)

Platyhelminthes

d)

Porifera

8.

Bilateral organisms with well developed digestive systems that are one-way.

a)

Annelida

b)

Porifera

c)

Echinodermata

d)

Cnidaria

9.

Includes snails, nudibranchs, clams, squid and octopus.

a)

Mollusca

b)

Echinodermata

c)

Cnidaria

d)

Porifera

10.

Many have a hard mouth part known as a beak or radula.

a)

Cnidaria

b)

Echinodermata

c)

Porifera

d)

Mollusca

11.

Their name is from the Greek for "spiny skin"

a)

Porifera

b)

Echinodermata

c)

Mollusca

d)

Cnidaria

12.

These are radially symmetrical and only found in the ocean.

a)

Echinodermata

b)

Porifera

c)

Mollusca

d)

Cnidaria

13.

These have no blood and eye spots on their "arms"

a)

Mollusca

b)

Cnidaria

c)

Porifera

d)

Echinodermata

14.

Larvae are planktonic with bilateral symmetry while adults are benthic with radial symmetry

a)

Mollusca

b)

Echinodermata

c)

Porifera

d)

Cnidaria

15.

Sea stars pull their prey apart and then extrude their ________ to eat the organism.

a)

mouth

b)

stomach

c)

intestines

d)

arms

16.

Most sea stars have 5 rays so they are said to be

a)

pentaradial

b)

monoradial

c)

octoradial

d)

septaradial

17.

Echinoderms are closely related to

a)

vertebrates

b)

annelids

c)

porifera

18.

Echinoderms have an open cavity surrounding the digestive system known as a

a)

pocket

b)

coelom

c)

mesentery

d)

madroporite

19.

The opening in a sea star that allows water into the water vascular system

a)

tube feet

b)

madreporite

c)

mesentery

d)

coelom

20.

The side of the sea star that has the mouth is called the

a)

aboral

b)

dorsal

c)

ventral

d)

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