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Ribbon like membrane that has rows of teeth that point backward

Radula

Sheath of skin extending from the visceral mass that hangs down on each side of the body protecting the soft parts

Mantle

Shell or door

Valve

Middle shell layer made up of calcium carbonate

Prismatic

The oldest part of a bivalve shell

Umbo

Something made by a oyster when the source of an irritant is covered in layers of Nacre

Pearl

Not able to move

Sessile

Having no symmetry sponges have this

Assymetry

The term cephalopoda means

Head foot

The free swimming larva that emerges from the egg in many mollusk

Trochophore

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

Budding

Common predators of jellyfish

Sea turtles

Cnidarian stinging cells

Cnidocytes

The simplest sponge body form in which choanocytes lie in a large chamber Called the spongocoel

Asconoid

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

Leuconoid

The jellylike extra cellular matrix of a sponge

Mesohyl

class name Means many plate bearers

Polyplacophora

The largest known species of jellyfish

Lions mane

The most venomous animal in the world

Box jellyfish

Body form of free swimming jellyfish

Medusa

The most common type of cnidae

Nematocysts

Motile larva of a jellyfish se

Planula

Sea anemones have this type of symmetry

Radial

Sensory structures used for light reception

Ocelli

class name Means many plate bearers

Polyplacophora

The largest known species of jellyfish

Lions mane

The most venomous animal in the world

Box jellyfish

Body form of free swimming jellyfish

Medusa

The most common type of cnidae

Nematocysts

Motile larva of a jellyfish se

Planula

Sea anemones have this type of symmetry

Radial

Sensory structures used for light reception

Ocelli

The extra cellular mix that acts like glue between the two body layers the jelly of a jellyfish

Mesoglea

Immature eight armed free swimming medusae formed from strobulation

Ephyrae

Nickname for chironex flickeri

Sea wasp

Term referring to organisms with two different body forms

Dimorphism

The nematocysts sensor which triggers the Filament to pop out

Cnidocil

Needle like structure that make up the skeleton of many sponges

Spicules

Internal buds which can help sponges survive harsh conditions a type of asexual reproduction

Gemmules

Exit opening at the top of a sponge

Osculum

Process in which a polyp can produce many medusae

Strobulation

Name for pores on a sponge

Ostia

Class of sponges in which the spicules have three or four rays

Calcarea

name meaning Pore bearing

Porifera

Flowers of the sea that form a symbiotic relationship with clown fish and hermit crabs

Sea anemone

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

Fission

Organs that remove metabolic waste from a mollusk body

Nephridia

Modified girls present in many aquatic mollusk; feathery or comb like structures used for respiration

Ctenidia

What does the term mollusk mean

Stomach foot

Material which composes the inner layer of a mollusk shell

Nacre

Very small jelly with stingers on the bell

Irakandj

Class containing box jellies with complex eyes and potent toxins

Cubazoa

Strong muscles which extent between the shells to tightly hold a bivalves shell closed

Adductor muscle

Animals found on rocky marine shorelines with eight overlapping plates on their dorsal surface

Chitons

Poda means what

Foot

An underwater ecosystem made of colonies of coral polyps

Coral reef

A power greater than the human mind created life

Creation

The organisms with the best adaptations will survive the longest and thus be able to reproduce

Natural selection

Father of evolution

Darwin

Boat that Darwin traveled on for 5 years

HMS beagle

A food brought by humans to the Galápagos Islands that became a good source

Guavas

Interfered with the Galápagos Islands

Tourism

Time period with many new factories releasing smog

Industrial revolution

Unicellular sessile prokaryote

Archaebacteria

Unicellular motile prokaryote

Eubacteria

Most venomous of the 500 geographic cone species

Geographic cone snail

Multicellular sessile eukaryote

Plantae

Having the male and female reproductive organs in separate organisms

Dioecious

What word comes from the Latin word meaning soft

Mollusk

Nickname for a giant barrel sponge

Redwood of the sea

Class including organisms such as nudibranchs snails and slugs known as the stomach footed mollusk because their large muscular foot is positioned under the rest of its body

Gastropoda

class containing organisms that are Divided into two halves and connected by a hinge includes oysters clams scallops

Bivalvia

Quest that contains organisms such as squid octopus Nautilis and cuttlefish they have a close circulatory system and blue blood

Chephalopoda

Largest bivalve

Giant clam

Class containing sponges

Porifera

Soft bodied marine Gastropod

Nudibranchs