Invertebrate Webquest Activity
Use the websites listed belong the questions to answer the
questions. Place all your answers on a separate sheet of
paper, make sure to place the label of each of the groups on
the paper.
Invertebrate Groups:
Sponges
Sponges:
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What does “sessile” mean?
How many known species of sponges are there?
Do sponges have tissues or organs?
What do sponges eat?
How do sponges eat?
What is the name of the specialized cell where food is collected?
What Kingdom and Phylum do sponges belong to?
What is the “osculum”?
Sketch and label the sponge’s external anatomy.
Write down 2 “fun facts” from the websites below about sponges!
Use the links below:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/sponge/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/sponge/label/
http://www.mcwdn.org/Animals/Sponges.html (systems)
http://www.oceanicresearch.org/education/wonders/sponges.html
Cnidarians
Cnidarians (Coelenterates):
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/cnidaria.html
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What are the stinging cells called?
Where does the word Cnidarian come from and what does it mean?
Name the four major groups of Cnidarians and list an example of each.
Click on the links of each of the four groups of Cnidarians and sketch one example animal from
each group.
What is the basic form of the cnidarian body?
Why don’t jellyfish need a skeleton to support them?
List the body type that anemones and coral have:
List the body type that jellyfish have
Describe the polyps body form
Describe the medusa body form.
How does food get into a cnidarian?
How does waste get out of a cnidarian?
List 2 “fun facts” about jellyfish
Are Cnidarians deadly to humans? Why or why not?
List a type of jellyfish that can be deadly to humans.
http://www.mcwdn.org/Animals/Coral.html (systems)
http://www.oceanicresearch.org/education/wonders/cnidarian.html (too high)
http://animals.about.com/od/cnidarians/Cnidarians_Phylum_Cnidaria.htm
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Invertebrates/Facts/cnidarians/default.cfm
http://animals.about.com/od/cnidarians/a/tenfactsjellyfi.htm
http://www.jellyfishfacts.net/dangerous-jellyfish.html
Echinoderms
Echinoderms
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What does “echinoderm” mean?
How many species of echinoderms are there?
Where do all echinoderms live?
Give 3 examples of echinoderms:
List 3 characteristics of echinoderms.
List 2 “fun facts” about echinoderms
http://www.oceaninn.com/the-nature-preserve/echinoderms/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/echinoderm/
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information
Flatworms
FLATWORMS (Platyhelminthes)
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What is a “parasite”?
About how many species are know in this group?
How does a flatworm move?
What part of a flatworm helps it sense light?
How does a flatworm get rid of waste?
How long can an adult tapeworm be?
Find 2 “fun facts” about flatworms
http://www.medfriendly.com/tapeworm.html
http://www.mcwdn.org/Animals/Flatworm.html
(systems)http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/platyhelminthes.html
Roundworms
Roundworms:
http://www.mcwdn.org/Animals/Roundworms.html
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How many known species of roundworms are there?
How many eggs can some species of roundworms lay in a single day?
How many unknown species of roundworms are there said to be?
Name three common types of roundworms.
Where do roundworms live?
Describe the body shape of a roundworm.
Where does Ascaris live?
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Go to Life Cycle Diagram near bottom of page
What part of the human body do adult Ascaris worms live?
How many eggs can be produce a day?
How long can adult Ascaris worm live?
Ascaris
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/ecdysozoa/nematoda.html
Annelids - The Segmented Worms
Segmented Worms – Annelids
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How many species of annelids are there?
What is “worm charming”
List 3 organ systems that annelids have.
How many species of Earthworms are there?
How do earthworms help humans?
http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/annelida.html
http://www.mcwdn.org/Animals/Earthworms.html
Mollusks
Mollusks
1. How many species of mollusk are there?
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/bivalve/Bivalves.shtml
2. What is a bivalve?
3. Give 3 examples of bivalves
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/mollusk/cephalopod/Cephalo
podprintouts.shtml
4. What is a cephalopod?
5. What do cephalopods eat?
6. Give 2 examples of cephalopods
7. What does cephalopod mean?
http://answers.askkids.com/Life_on_Earth/what_is_a_gastropod
8. What is a gastropod?
9. Give 2 examples of gastropods
10. Where in the world do they live?
11. How many species of gastropods are there?
12. What does “gastropod” mean?
Arthropods
Arthropods
http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/animals1/phylum/arthropod.html
1. How many species of arthropods are there?
2. How many arthropod individuals are alive today?
3. How many insects are there for every single human?
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3 external characteristics of arthropod bodies
3 organ systems that arthropods have
some special sensory organs that arthropods have
the old 4-Class taxonomic system groups of arthropods and an example of each
http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=15
8. How many legs do insects have?
9. What can insects do that no other arthropods can do?
10. How many legs do arachnids have?
11. Give 3 examples of types o arachnids.
12. How many legs do crustaceans have?
13. Where do most crustaceans live?
14. Find 3 fun facts about arthropods
Find more arthropod information at the site below!
http://www.mcwdn.org/Animals/Insect.html