Spongy Quiz
This quiz is in the form of a poem. Your mission is to fill in the blanks so that the poem makes sense and rhymes!
A very simple animal
Is a ____________
Created in the _________ age
Near the coast of __________
It can be in three classes
__________, largest by far
Calcarea, with its tough skeleton
And the star-shaped ____________
It may have a structure
Of a simple __________
The symmetrical __________
Or complex _____________
Sponges have no organs
Only simple cells
With large openings in the middle
Called the ___________
The sponge is protected
By skin-like ____________
To create advanced osmosis
Use __________ and __________
_________ have a flagellum
To capture food and oxygen
__________ can do anything
Working again and again
Water flows through canals
Near the mesohyl
With tissues and _________
That create the spicules
Then the water flows
Into a large cavity
It exits through a huge ________
Or ________, rather tiny
Now you have finished your quiz
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