Sponges and Cnidarians

What is an invertebrate?

• An animal with a backbone
• a mammal
• An animal without a backbone
• birds

This picture is an example of which group of invertebrates?

• Segmented worms
• Fish
• Sponges
• Arthropods

Between 90-95% of all animals on earth can be classified as _____.

• invertebrates
• vertebrates
• reptiles
• mammals

I have a digestive cavity with one opening, and have tentacles.  I am a hydra.

• Echinoderm
• Cnidarian
• Arthropod
• Mollusk

Which phylum is mainly asymmetrical?

• cnidaria
• porifera (sponges)
• echinodermata
• arthropoda

Most animals have this type of symmetry?

• radial
• asymmetrical
• bilateral
• trilateral

These organisms all have nematocysts.

• cnidaria
• mollusca
• arthropoda
• porifera

This form of cnidaria is known as a _______.

• polyp
• medusa

This form of cnidaria is known as a __________.

• medusa
• polyp

What filters food and eliminates waste from the water it lives in?

• sponge
• segmented worm
• arthropod
• mollusk