Water enters the sponge through what?

Sponges are mostly _________. This means they can produce both male and female reproductive cells.

These structures make up the sponge's skeleton. They provide structure and rigidity.

Phylum Porifera is a division of the _________ Kingdom.

What characteristics let us know that a sponge is an animal?

How do sponges reproduce?

Tube-like cells which line the pores, ostia, present on the body wall of sponges

Phylum Porifera is a phylum of:

Can differentiate into any cell and help with digestion

Cells that each use a flagellum to create a water current through the sponge. They also have sticky collars to catch food particles for digestion.

Porifera means what?

How do most sponges eat?

Sponges are _______ in their adult forms.

Sponges are ______ in their larval form.

During sexual reproduction, sperm is released by sponges into the water. Some of it will enter other sponges for __________ ___________ and form a __________.

Sponges do not have organs or even true tissues so they are considered the ______ ______ multicellular animals.

They can live throughout the oceans from trenches to the arctic to tropical reefs.

Sponges likely evolved fairly recently. They are one of the last multicellular animals to evolve.

Sponges can reproduce asexually through what methods?