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

We hope you had some fun

But wait a minute- it’s a quiz

You’re probably glad it’s done!


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