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10 Animal Example

Answer 1 – 10 Chiton

20 The largest Structure found on the underside of the chiton.

Answer 1 – 20 What is the Foot?

Question Chiton’s breathing method.

Answer 1 – 30 What are gills?

Question Adaptation used to live in pounding surf of high energy rocky shores.

Answer 1 – 40 How does the foot act as a suction cup?

Question The number of dorsal plates found on chitons that are used as protection.

Answer 1 – 50 What is the number 8?

Question Squid use these two structures for capturing prey.

Answer 2 – 10 What are tentacles and arms?

Question This structure allows for jet propulsion.

Answer 2 – 20 What is the siphon?

Question This is the structure used for scraping up algae or drilling holes in shells of potential prey.

Answer 2 – 30 What is the radula?

Question This nearly extinct group of cephalopods still retain their shell.

Answer 2 – 40 What is a nautilus?

Question The special cells that help cephalopods camouflage themselves.

Answer 2 – 50 What are chromatophores?

Question Clams, mussels, and scallops all belong to this group of mollusks.

Answer 3 – 10 What is class Bivalvia?

Question The structures used in helping to direct food to the palps and mouth in clams and other bivalves.

Answer 3 – 20 What are the gills/ filter feeding?

Question The structure that secretes the shell in mollusks.

Answer 3 – 30 What is the mantle?

Question This structure, present in most other mollusks, has been lost over time in bivalves.

Answer 3 – 40 What is the radula?

Question This is the oldest part of the bivalve shell.

Answer 3 – 50 What is the umbo?

Question Snails and nudibranchs belong to this class of molluscs.

Answer 4 – 10 What is class Gastropoda?

Question Snails have these two sensory structures.

Answer 4 – 20 What are eyes and tentacles?

Question The location of the anus in snails is located here.

Answer 4 – 30 What is above the head?

Question This is the larval stage of most mollusks.

Answer 4 – 40 What is the trochophore or veliger larva

Question The twisting of the internal body as the shell grows. This process ultimately can cause fouling.

Answer 4 – 50 What is torsion?

Question The mantle tissue secretes this common mollusk structure.

Answer 5 – 10 What is the shell?

Question This mollusk class is the only one with a closed circulatory system.

Answer 5 – 20 What is class Cephalopoda?

Question The name of the parasitic larva that hooks onto the gills of a fish for transportation.

Answer 5 – 30 What is the glochidia?

Question These flesh-like structures cover the mouth of bivalves and help to direct food into the clam.

Answer 5 – 40 What are the palps?

Question The muscles that help open and close the clam.

Answer 5 – 50 What are the abductor/ adductor muscles?