Review Questions on Mollusks, Annelids, and Arthropods Review Questions
- Which phyla are protostomes? deuterostomes? [answer]
- What are the characteristics of protostomes? [answer]
Describe how protostomes differ from deuterostomes. [answer]
- List the classes of mollusks [answer], and
annelids [answer].
- Understand how the following are classified: chitons,
snails,
clams,
octopus,
squid,
nautilus,
earthworms,
marine
annelids, leeches.
- Name the type of circulatory system (open or closed) in the four classes
of mollusks. [answer]
- Cephalopods have camera-type eyes. What other kind(s) of animals have this type of eye?
[answer]
- What are the distinguishing characteristics of a mollusk? [answer]
- Where does a clam shell come from? (What secretes it?) [answer]
- How do bivalves obtain their food? [answer]
- Describe the major characteristics of annelids. [answer]
- Name the partitions that separate the segments of an annelid. [answer]
- Name the main structures found in the body of an annelid. [answer]
- Describe how an earthworm changes the shape of its segments. [answer]
- State the function of the clitellum in earthworms. [answer]
- Name the type of skeleton found in arthropods. [answer]
- Name the excretory structure of insects. [answer]
- Describe incomplete and complete metamorphosis in insects. [answer]
- Why are insects so successful? [answer
(part 1), answer
(part 2)]
- What are the characteristics of protostomes? [answer]
- Which phyla are protostomes? deuterostomes? [answer]
- Name the type of skeleton found in arthropods. [answer]
- Name the three subphyla of arthropods and describe the general
characteristics of animals in each of them. [answer
(part 1), answer
(part 2), answer
(part 3)]
- Classify the following organisms into subphylum and class: barnacles,
centipedes,
copepods,
crabs,
crayfish,
decapods,
horshoe crabs, insects,
isopods,
krill,
lobster,
millipedes,
mites,
scorpions,
spiders,
ticks
- Describe the respiratory system of the following: insects [answer], spiders.
[answer]
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