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Zoology:
Review Study Guide
Mollusks:
1. What is the function of the mollusk foot?
2. What would happen if a snail had a genetic abnormality that caused the radula to not function
properly?
3. What is the term for the collection of all the body organs?
4. Which class of mollusks contains snails and slugs?
5. Clams belong to which class of mollusks?
6. Which of the three classes of mollusks is the largest and most diverse?
7. What structure do ALL mollusks use for excretion?
8. What are the pigment cells called found in cephalopods that contribute to their ability to
camouflage?
9. What is the chemical that is released during an “ink cloud” getaway that irritates the eyes and
paralyzes the sense of smell?
10. What is responsible for turning a cephalopods blood a blue-green color?
11. Which is the only cephalopod that contains a true shell?
12. Clams burrow by using what?
13. What structure aids in opening and closing the shell of a clam?
14. The cephalopod nervous system is best described how?
15. Bivalves use what to bring food into their shells?
16. The free swimming larva that emerges from most mollusk eggs is the?
17. Name various ways that cephalopods are significant?
18. Growth lines on a bivalve shell can indicate what?
19. What is the function of gills in a mollusk?
Echinoderms:
20. A starfish has what type of symmetry?
21. The endoskeleton of a starfish is made up of what?
22. What is the function of spines on an echinoderm?
23. ____ is the opening for the water vascular system and where the water first enters.
24. What is the difference between the larval stage and the adult stage of an echinoderm?
25. Once the water (during the WVS) enters the madreporite, it then passes through the ___ which
connects the madreporite to the _____.
26. What do tube feet allow a sea star to do using the WVS?
27. What structure is expelled through the mouth in order to begin digestion?
28. What structure actually contains the digestive enzymes to help break down live prey?
29. Instead of a brain, starfish have this located around the mouth?
30. How do sea stars ASEXUALLY reproduce?
31. Bipinnaria is the name for what?
32. What is the structure that sand dollars use in order to digest their food?
33. Sea Cucumbers are known as “earthworms of the sea” because?
34. How do sea lilies and feather stars move?
Arthropods:
35. Gas exchange between the blood of the horseshoe crab and the seawater occurs through what?
36. Spiders, ticks, and scorpions belong to what arthropod class?
37. Periodic shedding of the arthropods exoskeleton is called what?
38. Malpighian tubules are used for what in insects and spiders?
39. Some insects like ants lay down a pheromone trail to show other ants where food is. This is known
as what?
40. Lyme’s disease is a disease that is transmitted by what type of arthropod?
41. What does arthropod mean?
42. A male crayfish is easy to identify because if what?
43. What are basic characteristics that all arthropods share?
44. The green glands of the crayfish were used for what?
45. Where are the fertilized eggs held on a female crayfish right before they hatch?
46. What is the purpose of certain arthropods releasing solid or semi solid waste instead of liquid
waste?
47. Holes found on the ventral surface of certain arthropods that allow air into the respiratory
system?
48. The dormant stage in complete metamorphosis where the most radical body changes are being
made?
49. Class Chilopoda includes what type of arthropod?
Fish:
50. What are some general traits that all fish have?
51. Some fish, like sharks, can detect injured fish due to their erratic movements. The sense organ that
enables them to do this is?
52. Sharks and lampreys both have what type of skeleton?
53. What animals represent the class Chondrichthyes?
54. What is ram ventilation?
55. Most fish lay eggs. They are said to be what?
56. Bony fish have a swim bladder to maintain buoyancy. What does a shark have?
57. The regulation of water and salt ions in the body is known as what?
58. The urinary bladder and kidneys make up the ____ of a fish.
59. What animal represent the class Osteichthyes?
60. The folded lining of the stomach in sharks that expands with large meals is called what?
61. Bony fish: swim bladder :: Cartilaginous fish : ?
62. Vertebrate animals have what characteristics during some point in their life?
63. These are used in the aid of respiration while eating?
64. Ampullae of Lorenzini are able to detect what?
65. These can be used to identify a fish and estimate the age of that fish?
66. List some characteristics of ALL chordates.
67. Trace the path that blood takes in the circulatory system of a fish.
68. Teeth are modified scales for grasping prey? True or False
69. What type of body covering do hagfish have?
70. What type of skeleton do members from the class Osteichthyes have?
71. Members of the class Chondrichthyes have what type of skeleton?
72. What are the rings on the scales of a fish called that are used to tell the age of a fish?
73. Which chambers of the heart has the most muscle and is bigger because it acts as a pump for the
blood?
74. What is one reproductive organ that separates male sharks from female sharks?
75. This increases the absorption of nutrients at the lower part of the intestine?
Amphibians:
76. What animals are considered amphibians?
77. This aids in the changing of color for camouflage?
78. Frogs and toads belong to what order of amphibians?
79. Adult amphibians breathe in which way?
80. Because amphibians depend on external sources of heat to maintain body temperature they are
said to be?
81. Vocalizations in amphibians are important for what?
82. Amphibians have hemocyanin- blue blood: True or False
83. The carotid artery takes oxygen ___ blood to the ___.
84. What is the membrane that protects and cleanses the eye?
85. Chemoreceptors are found in what parts of the amphibian body?
86. This order of amphibians have a tail throughout their life and reproduce through internal
fertilization?
87. This order of amphibians contains salamanders and newts?
88. The female uses what structure in order to pick up the sperm cap that is deposited by the male?
89. This order of amphibians fertilize eggs externally?
90. Breeding normally occurs during what seasons?
91. These are the flat hearing organ located behind the eyes?
92. What amphibian does not have any legs, is blind, and live in tropical regions?
93. List various ways that frogs and toads are different.
94. List various factors that decrease the population of frogs and salamanders.
95. Be able to label this picture of the frog dissected using the following terms: heart, liver, lungs,
ovaries, oviducts, small intestine.