Porifera Cnidaria Quiz A

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Name ____________________________________________ Date ________________ Per ______

Porifera and Cnidaria Quiz


Part I. Multiple Choice (4 points each): Write your answer in the space provided

1. ____ What does invertebrate mean? 7. ____ Cnidaria is a(n)


a. Soft body a. Class
b. No backbone b. Kingdom
c. Has a spine c. Phylum
d. Has a shell d. Order

2. ____ A sea sponge is considered an animal 8. ____ Sponges are considered the simplest
(not a plant) because multicellular animals because
a. It is photosynthetic a. They can move
b. Its cells contain a cell wall b. They lack true tissues and organs
c. It is a heterotroph c. They cannot obtain food
d. It cannot move d. All of the above

3. ____ All sponges are 9. ____ All of the following are the polyp form
a. Porous of a Cnidarian except
b. Filter feeders a. Sea Anemone
c. Sessile b. Jellyfish
d. All of the above c. Coral
d. Hydra
4. ____ Which of the following describes a
nematocyst? 10. ____ Nearly all Cnidarians
a. It is a species of sea anemone a. Have tentacles
b. It is a long tentacle-like appendage b. Are colonial organisms
c. It is a type of coral c. Have a brain
d. It is a spring-like stinging cell that d. Both A and B
penetrates tissue on contact e. Both B and C

5. ____ Which characteristic is shared by both 11. ____ The substance secreted by coral
a sponge and a sea anemone? polyps in order to form a coral reef is
a. They are sessile a. Calcium Carbonate
b. They are photosynthetic b. Sodium Chloride
c. They have tentacles c. Hydrochloric Acid
d. They are filter feeders d. Protein

6. ____ This is the sessile form of a Cnidarian 12. ____ The living part of a coral reef is found
a. Medusa a. At the reef bottom
b. Box Jellyfish b. At the reef top
c. Encrusting sponge c. At the center of the reef
d. Polyp d. The entire reef is living

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Part II. Fill in the Blank (3 points each)- Use the word bank below. Some words will not be used.

Cnidaria Budding Anthozoa Bilateral Scyphozoa Radial Osculum

Seeds Anemones Corals Box Jellyfish Nerve Net Spicules

Portuguese Man-o-War Mesoglea Collar Cells Ostia Porifera

13. Clownfish live symbiotically with _____________________.

14. Water flows into a sponge through pores called ____________ and out of the sponge through openings
called ___________________.

15. All cnidarians display __________________ symmetry.

16. This organism is actually multiple organisms working together as one: _______________________

17. The term ________________ is Latin for pore-bearing, while _________________ is Greek for stinging
nettle.

18. _______________ are microscopic, brittle structures which give a sponge it’s rigid form.

19. The class __________________ includes corals and sea anemones.

20. ____________________ make up the inner lining of a sponge and have a flagellum that propels water.

21. The __________________ is gelatinous substance found in most Cnidarians.

Part III: Labeling (3 points each): Using the word bank, label the missing structures of the sea sponge:

Porocyte

Choanocyte

Amoebocyte

Spicule

Part IV: Extended Response: (7 points)


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All organisms possess unique adaptations in order to help them to survive. Select either a sea sponge or a
sea anemone. Identify your selected organism in the space below:

Organism: _________________________

For the organism you selected, please answer the following:

 How does the organism carry out nutrition (obtain food)?


 How does the organism reproduce?
 What important role does it play in its ecosystem?

Please answer each question in as much detail as possible and write your responses in bullet
form.

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