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Study Guide for VT 1176,"Life on Earth: The Segmented Invertebrates"

The focus on this video is on Phylum Arthropoda, with some references to Phylum Annelida.

  1. A presumptive evolutionary selective pressure for a segmented worm body was to:
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  3. A region of ocean with deoxygenated water would have what advantages for fossilization?

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  5. Very common fossils in the Cambrian period (500 million years ago), with their exoskeletons of calcium carbonate and chitin, were the:

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  7. Even the earliest trilobites had what kind of eyes? _______________________________

  8. A wide variety of shapes and sizes indicates that trilobites inhabited _________________________
  9. Trilobites died out about ______________________ million years ago.
  10. A living relative of the trilobite is the _________________________________________________
  11. In the United States, horseshoe crabs can be found ________________________________________
  12. Many crustaceans live ______________________________________________, where they are a food staple for many fish and whales.
  13. Given that they have a hard exoskeleton, how do crustaceans and other arthropods grow?
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  15. The giant spider crabs off of Japan demonstrate that crustaceans have (circle one)

  16. ball and socket joints joints hinged in different planes

  17. The many appendages off of a segmented body, can serve many differing functions, including:

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  19. All crustaceans live only in the ocean. true false

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  21. Millipedes are _______________________________, so that their sexual encounters do not run the risk of being consumed by a mate.

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  23. In contrast, scorpions are _____________________, and so involve ritualized __________________ in their mating.


|main page| |background| |03028: Physiology| |03048: Anatomy|

|03050: Invertebrate Zoology| |03051: Vertebrate Zoology| |03074: Economic Botany|

 


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