Intermediate Level Molluscan Quiz
Name: ___________________
In each question, one answer and only one answer is NOT correct. Place a tic beside that answer.
Teachers; the answers are red and in italics:
1. Molluscs have been on the earth for approximately:
2. All molluscs require __________ to live:
3. Invertebrates that have soft bodies and often have a shell are called:
4. Molluscs breathe by means of using:
5. Molluscs in the Class of Gastropoda have a _________ part shell:
6. Molluscs can be found:
7. Mollusc that are carnivores may eat foods such as:
8. The finger-like knobs extending from a molluscs head are called _________:
9. Man has used and sometimes still uses sea shells for:
- money or trade currency
- jewelry
- tools
- medicine
- transportation
10. Octopus, members of the Class cephalopoda have __________ tentacles
- 10
- 8
11. Examples of molluscan classes are:
12. Most molluscs have a tongue-like ribbon coated with tiny rasp-like teeth that are used to scrape of small pieces of food. This file-like part of the snail is called the:
13. Molluscs have one broad, muscular __________ with which they move about their habitat
14. Molluscs have a flesh-like organ of soft tissue called the __________. This organ takes calcium and other chemicals out of their environment and uses these chemicals to make it's shell.
15. Molluscs can produce a mucus-like slime to:
16. These molluscs can produce pearls:
17. Molluscs can use this form of action to move from place to place:
18. Some molluscs are covered with sharp spines. These are used as:
19. Member of the bivalve class can grow to weigh:
20. Examples of recipes that you would use molluscs in:
21. The language scientists use when talking about and describing all animals is:
22. Molluscs with a one-piece shell are called:
23. Which phrase does NOT describe a garden slug:
24. Which animal listed below is not a mollusc:
25. People who study molluscs and their shells are called: