Exploring Our Fluid Earth

Teaching Science as Inquiry

 

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Question Set: Phylum Porifera
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: Phylum Porifera
  1. Why do scientists consider sponges to be the simplest, most basal animals?
     
  2. How is it possible for sponges to survive without a digestive, excretory, circulatory, or respiratory system?
     
  3. What are some possible functions of spicules and spongin? How are these sponge parts alike and different?
     
  4. What are some other uses that humans have for sponges?
     
  5. A gemmule is an example of a cryptobiotic life phase. Can you think of other examples of cryptobiosis in nature?
     
  6. Because sponges live attached to rocks, they do not move around. How do they feed and respire?
     
  7. What do sponges filter from the water?
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.