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Chapter 26: Sponges, Cnidarians, Flatworms, and Roundworms

Practice Test
      
  1.Sponges can move from place to place only during their _______ stage.  
  a.   larval  
  b.   adult  
  c.   medusa  
  d.   hermphrodite  
  Hint    
      
  2.Cnidarians get oxygen by __________.  
  a.   means of lungs  
  b.   filter feeding  
  c.   means of gills  
  d.   diffusion  
  Hint    
      
  3.A structure that conducts nerve impulses from all parts of the body, but has no control center is called a ___________.  
  a.   nerve net  
  b.   nervous system  
  c.   brain  
  d.   nematocyst  
  Hint    
      
  4.Which of the following has more complex structures?  
  a.   jellyfish  
  b.   coral  
  c.   sponge  
  d.   flatworms  
  Hint    
      
  5.Which of the following worms do NOT cause disease in humans?  
  a.   tapeworms  
  b.   flukes  
  c.   planarians  
  d.   roundworms  
  Hint    
      
  6.Eating unwashed, uncooked vegetables may result in __________.  
  a.   Trichinella infection  
  b.   Pinworms  
  c.   Hookworms  
  d.   Ascaris infection  
  Hint    
      
  7.The most common human roundworm parasites are __________.  
  a.   Ascaris, hookworms, Trichinella and pinworms  
  b.   pinworms, hookworms and tapeworms  
  c.   hookworms, tapeworms and flukes  
  d.   flukes and tapeworms  
  Hint    
      
  8.The knob-shaped head of a tapeworm is called the __________.  
  a.   fluke  
  b.   polyp  
  c.   scolex  
  d.   proglottid  
  Hint    
      
  9.An individual that produces both eggs and sperm is called a __________.  
  a.   medusa  
  b.   proglottid  
  c.   hermaphrodite  
  d.   polyp  
  Hint    
      
  10.A stage of a jellyfish that has a shape like an umbrella with the tentacles hanging down is called the __________.  
  a.   zygote  
  b.   larva  
  c.   polyp  
  d.   medusa  
  Hint    
      
  11.The Portuguese man-of-war is an example of a __________.  
  a.   medusa  
  b.   scyphozoan  
  c.   hydrozoan  
  d.   polyp  
  Hint    
      
  12.Scientists infer that sponges may have evolved from __________.  
  a.   flagellated protists  
  b.   jellyfish  
  c.   hydra  
  d.   coral  
  Hint    
      
  13.Which describes the route water takes through a sponge?  
  a.   in through pore cells and out through the osculum  
  b.   in through the osculum and out through the pore cells  
  c.   in through the osculum and out through the amoebocytes  
  d.   in through the amoebocytes and out through the osculum  
  Hint    
      
  14.Skeletons of sponges are made of __________.  
  a.   spongin or spicules  
  b.   spongin and collar cells  
  c.   spongin and amoebocytes  
  d.   spongin and epithelium  
  Hint    
      
  15.The parasitic worm found in improperly cooked pork that might cause disease is __________.  
  a.   Ascaris  
  b.   Trichinella  
  c.   the hookworm  
  d.   the pinworm  
  Hint    

 
   
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