Exploring Our Fluid Earth

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Question Set: Structure and Function
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices
Engaging in Argument from Evidence
NGSS Crosscutting Concepts
Structure and Function
Patterns
NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas
LS1.A: Structure and Function
LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms
LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms
LS1.D: Information Processing
LS4.A: Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
LS4.C: Adaptation
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Question Set: Structure and Function
  1. How do body plans constrain the types of features that can evolve in organisms?
     
  2. What are the advantages of a radially symmetrical body plan?
     
  3. What are the advantages of a bilaterally symmetrical body plan?
     
  4. Why do bilaterally symmetrical organisms typically have feeding and sensory structures concentrated at the anterior end of the organism?
     
  5. Use your own words to define the term cephalization. Provide examples of animals with and without cephalization.
     
  6. Explain why there are fewer body plans in diploblastic compared with triploblastic organisms.
     
  7. What is a coelom? Explain its importance to complexity of invertebrate body plans.
Exploring Our Fluid Earth, a product of the Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG), College of Education. University of Hawaii, 2011. This document may be freely reproduced and distributed for non-profit educational purposes.