NAME: ________________________

Major Invertebrate Phyla Characteristics Test

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3 Written Questions

3 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Level of Organization: Cellular--lack tissues and organs
    Germ layers: absent
    Symmetry: absent
    Cephalization: absent
    Body Cavity: absent
    Segmentation: absent
    Digestive system: Intracellular
    Circulatory System: Absent
    Respiratory System: absent
    Nervous System: Absent
    Reproduction: Sexual; asexual (budding)
    Support: Endoskeleton of spicules
    Notes: eat by filtering; sessile
  2. Level of Organization: Organ System
    Germ layers: three
    Symmetry: bilateral
    Cephalization: present
    Body Cavity: pseudocoel
    Segmentation: absent
    Digestive system: Separate mouth and anus
    Circulatory System: absent
    Respiratory System: absent
    Nervous System: head ganglia with dorsal and ventral nerve cords; ganglia in segments, some fused
    Reproduction: sexual (some hermaphroditic)
    Support: hydrostatic skeleton
    Note: internal fertilization, thin bodies don't need circulatory/respiratory system
  3. Level of Organization: Organ System
    Germ layers: three
    Symmetry: bilateral
    Cephalization: present
    Body Cavity: Coelom
    Segmentation: absent
    Digestive system: Separate mouth and anus
    Circulatory System: open
    Respiratory System: gills and lungs
    Nervous System: well-developed brain in some cephalopods; several paired ganglia, most in the head; nerve network in the body wall
    Reproduction: Sexual (some hermaphroditic)
    Support: Hydrostatic skeleton
    Note: have muscular goot and mantle; include gastropods, bivalves, cephalopods

2 True/False Questions

  1. Flatworms (Platyhelminthes)Level of Organization: Organ System
    Germ layers: three
    Symmetry: bilateral
    Cephalization: present
    Body Cavity: absent
    Segmentation: absent
    Digestive system: gastrovascular cavity
    Circulatory System: Absent
    Respiratory System: absent
    Nervous System: head ganglia with longitudal nerve cords
    Reproduction: Sexual (some hermaphroditic) asexual (body splits)
    Support: Hydrostatic skeleton
    Note: only one body opening (mouth), tissues group into functional units like eyespots

          

  2. Insects, Arachnids, Crustaceans (Anthropoda)Level of Organization: Organ System
    Germ layers: three
    Symmetry: bilateral
    Cephalization: present
    Body Cavity: Coelom
    Segmentation: absent
    Digestive system: Separate mouth and anus
    Circulatory System: open
    Respiratory System: gills and lungs
    Nervous System: well-developed brain in some cephalopods; several paired ganglia, most in the head; nerve network in the body wall
    Reproduction: Sexual (some hermaphroditic)
    Support: Hydrostatic skeleton
    Note: have muscular goot and mantle; include gastropods, bivalves, cephalopods