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Review: Porifera, Cnidaria, Echinoderms & Mollusks

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Sponges feed by drawing water into the oscula and then filtering it out through the sponge walls.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Cnidarians have a radially symmetrical cup or bag-like body made up of two layers of cells.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Like jellyfish, box jellyfish can swim and feed on plankton, but are weak swimmers.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

During torsion, gastropod bodies twist into a permanent line that separates the organs.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Squid differ from cuttlefish in that they're streamined for open water living and have two tentacles that are longer than others for seizing prey.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

The crustaceans in order Decapoda are important to the fishing industry because they may replace shrimp, lobsters and crabs as a food source.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The two major cell types in a sponge's tissues are

a)

Collar cells and epithelium

b)

Collar cells and amoebocytes

c)

amoebocytes and oscula

d)

epithelium and oscula

8.

Sponge larvae are more animal-like than adult sponges because

a)

They are aggressive predators

b)

They are free-swimming organisms

c)

They make good pets

d)

None of the above

9.

The largest class in phylum cnidaria is class ______, which includes _______.

a)

Anthozoa, jellyfish

b)

Hydrozoa, siphonopores

c)

Anthozoa, corals and anenomes

d)

Scyphozoa, jellyfish

10.

Fire corals and siphonophores are in class

a)

Hydrozoa

b)

Anthozoa

c)

Scyphozoa

d)

Protozoa

11.

Ctenophores differ from jellyfish by

a)

Being colorless

b)

having stinging cells

c)

Using cilia for movement

d)

eating plants

12.

Ctenophores eat

a)

Planktonic plants

b)

Planktonic animals

c)

Small fish

d)

snails

13.

_____________ may possibly be the longest animal in the world.

a)

the blue whale

b)

a siphonophore

c)

Lineus Longissimus

d)

None of the above

14.

Organisms in phylum Mollusca include

a)

Sea slugs

b)

Snails

c)

Squid

d)

All of the above

15.

Members of phylum Mollusca generally share _______, _______ and _______.

a)

Mantle, jet propulsion, tentacles

b)

mantle, foot, radula

c)

foot, tentacles, radula

d)

shells, radula, mantle

16.

The mollusks in class Gastropoda are

a)

single-shelled mollusks, snails and whelks

b)

oysters, clams and scallops

c)

octopuses, squid and clams

d)

all of the above.

17.

Mollusks in class Bivaliva

a)

have two shells

b)

lack a "head"

c)

Do not have a radula

d)

All of the above

18.

Mollusks in class Cephalopoda include

a)

Slugs and snails

b)

Oysters and scallops

c)

nudibranchs

d)

None of the above

19.

The _____________ is thought to be the most intelligent vertebrate

a)

Squid

b)

Octopus

c)

Whelk

d)

Cuttlefish

20.

Members of phylum Echinodermata are similar to chordates because

a)

Their larvae are bilaterally symmetrical

b)

They have decentralized nervous systems

c)

Most species have no head

d)

All of the above