Wonderful World of Invertebrates Web Quest
1.) Phylum Porifera: Sponges
Click Phylum Porifera -University of Michigan
1.) How many species of sponges are found in the world? (tell about where they live)
2.) Explain what cellular-level organization means?
Click here to see how sponges are built.
3. What does Porifera mean?
4.) Describe the body plan of a sponge
2.) Cnidarians: Jellyfish, coral, hydra & sea anemones
Introduction to the Cnidaria
1.) How many openings to the Cnidarian's body? List them.
2.) Explain how nematocysts work for Cnidarians.
3.) List two reasons why Cnidarians are considered important.
4.) Tell how medusa and polyps are different from one another.
5.) Do Cnidarian’s hunt their prey? What strategy do they use?
3.) Platyhelminthes: The flatworms
Click here to read about Platyhelminthes
1.) How many species of flatworms are found the world?
2.) How many humans have been infected by a parasitic flatworm?
3.) What is an eyespot?
4.) What was the long was the longest flatworm? How long was it?
5.) Draw a picture of one of the flatworms found on this link.
4.) Mollusks (soft bodied invertebrates)
Click on Mollusks then click on tropical oceans animals and then
MULLUSKS
1.) How many species of mollusks are found in the world?
2.) Explain the 3 body regions of a mollusk.
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3.) Explain how pearls are made?
4.) What is he difference between a squid and an octopus?
5.) Annelids: The segmented worms.
Introduction to the Annelida
1.What is a unique characteristic of Annelids?
2.What does Polychaete mean?
3.How many species of Annelids are there today?
6.) Echinoderms: Spiny skinned invertebrates
Click Echinoderms
1.Give 3 examples of echinoderms.
2.Do they follow a pattern? Explain.
3. Why do echinoderms need tube feet?
4. Sea cucumbers account for ____________ of the biomass on the ocean floor.
7.) Arthropods: animals with exoskeletons & jointed appendages
Click here to find out about arthropods
1.) Explain one reason that arthropods are such a wildly successful group of animals.
2.) Read about the morphology of arthropods and tell 7 interesting adaptations of appendages in arthropods.
3.) How fast can the fastest flying insect travel?
Click here to find out MORE – click on introducing the arthropods – Go through the presentation and answer
the questions. You will have to click on the NEXT arrow to move onto the next page. Read carefully!
Don’t miss any questions!!
4.) In fact, more than _______ of all described animal species are arthropods.
5.) About a ___________ ___________ insects are alive at any time. That's about ____________ million
insects for each person on Earth!
6.) Tiny crustaceans called ___________, less than a centimeter long, are the most ___________ animals
in the ocean. There are so many of them, that they outweigh all the ___________ on Earth!
7.) Give 2 examples of distribution; include name and where it lives.
8.) Give 2 examples of ecological niches; include name and what its job is.
9.) What are 4 reasons why arthropods are so successful?
10.) Most arthropods display five characteristics. We can use these to determine which animals are
arthropods. These arthropod characteristics include:
11.) Which of animals have bilateral symmetry?
12.) Which of animals are segmented?
13.) Which of animals grows its own hard exoskeleton?
14.) Which of animals have jointed legs?
15.) Which of animals have many pairs of limbs?
16.) Based on what you have learned, what 3 animals are arthropods?