First Nine Weeks Test

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What is a radula?

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A rasping, tongue-like organ that is found in all mollusks except bivalves

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What is a lions mane jellyfish

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The largest jellyfish species. Can grow up to 8 feet

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What is another name for a shell

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A valve

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Who was Charles Darwin?

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He was the father of evolution

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What is dimorphism?

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the existence of two different forms (as of color or size) of a species especially in the same population

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What is a trochophore?

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The first larva stage of a mollusk. They are small and translucent and ciliated

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What is a ephyrae?sh

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The larva buds jellyfish give off when budding

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What is the nickname for the giant barrel sponge and why?a f

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The redwood of the sea because of its large size

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What are gemmules?

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A form of asexual reproduction. Sponges live gemmules in capsules that will not leave the capsule until the conditions are right

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What is an osculum?

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A large opening at the top of a sponge

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What is the prismatic layer?

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The middle layer of a mollusk made of Calcium carbonate

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What are spicules?

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Microscopic needle like structures in that supports a sponges skeleton

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What is a ctenidia?

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A modified gill present in many aquatic mollusks; feathery or comb-like structures used for respiration

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What are adductor muscles?

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Strong muscles which extend between the shells to tightly hold a bivalves shell together

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What is a Cephalopod?

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an active predatory mollusk of the large class Cephalopoda, such as an octopus or squid.

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What is an asconoid?

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The simplest form of a sponge. It is small and tube shaped

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What is a random fact about the sponge class calcarea?

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They are sponges with spicules of calcium carbonate

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What does the term mollusk mean?

What

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Soft

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What does sessile mean?

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Stays in place

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What is a sea anemone?

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The flowers of the sea. Have a symbolic relationship with clown fish.

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What did the Galapagos turtles eat when when their food supply ran out

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Guava

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What is natural selection?

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The organism with the best adaptations will survive the longest

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What is mesohyl?

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Jellylike extracellular matrix

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What is creationism?

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A belief that a power more amazing than the human mind created life as we know it

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What is the kingdom plantae?

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The kingdom plants are in

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Polyplacaphora(Chitons)

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Plate beaters. Can roll up like a Rollie pollie or armadillo. All marine. Flattened body with a conver upper surface

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What is the scientific name for sponges

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Poriferas

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Nomura’s jellyfish

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Can be found between China and Japan. Can grow up to 6.6. They have overpopulated the waters

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Dioecious

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Being only male or female

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What is an ocelli?

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An eye spot or simple eye

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What is the HMS Beagle

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The ship Charles Darwin sailed on

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What is radial symmetry?

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Symmetry around a central axis, ad in a starfish or tulip flower

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Asymmetry

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Not symmetrical

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Evolution

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1.

the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

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What does Gastropod mean

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Stomach-foot

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Gastropoda

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Slugs and snails, belong to a larger taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum mollusca

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What is tourism?

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Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial (mass) tourism.

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What are nephridia?

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Organs that remove wastes from a mollusks body

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What is a cnidocil?

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The nematocyst sensor which triggers the filament to pop out

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Mantle

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the dorsal body wall which covers the visceral mass and usually protrudes in the form of flaps well beyond the visceral mass itself

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Nematocyst

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The most common type of cnidae

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Medusa

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Adult jellyfish

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What does cephalopod mean

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Head foot

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Box jellyfish

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The most venomous animal in the world

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Cnidocytes

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Cnidarian Stinging cells

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Chitons

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Chitons are marine molluscs of varying size in the class Polyplacophora

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Cone snail

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A fishing-eating snail (Conidae) that inhabits tropical coral reefs and produces toxins that immobilize their prey

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Mollusk foot

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The large, muscular organ mollusks use for locomotion and prey capture

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Umbo

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The oldest part of a bivalve shell

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Galapagos tortoises

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the largest living species of tortoise.

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Mesoglea

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The extra cellular matrix that acts like glue between the two body layers; the ‘jelly’ of a jellyfish

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Eubacteria

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a bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement. The group comprises the “true” bacteria and cyanobacteria, as distinct from archaebacteria

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What does the name Porifera mean?

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Pore bearing

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Leuconoid

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Most complex and most common sponge body form in which Choanocytes lie in distinct chambers

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Planula

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a free-swimming coelenterate larva with a flattened, ciliated, solid body

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Bivalvia

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a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts

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Pearl

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A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue ( specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk

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Fission

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Type of asexual reproduction in which an individual divides in half as one side of the polyp pulls away from the other side

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Sea turtle

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Eat jelly fish but can’t tell the difference between a jellyfish and plastic

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Ostia

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one of the tiny holes in the body of a sponge

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Strobilation

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Process in which a polyp can produce many Medusa Called ephyrae

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Budding

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Type of asexual reproduction in whisk knobs of tissue form on the side of an existing polyp

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Sea wasp

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Nickname for “Chironex Fleckeri”

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Archaebacteria

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microorganisms that are similar to bacteria in size and simplicity of structure but radically different in molecular organization

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Nudibranches

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Nudibranchs are a group of soft-bodied, marine gastropod molluscs which shed their shells after their larval stage.