9th -12th Grade South Carolina Aquarium Worksheet

For each phylum listed below, name two species that are exhibited in the Aquarium:

Chordata:
Arthropoda:
Mollusca:
Echinodermata:
Cnidaria:

In which phylum are most of the species in the Aquarium members?

Write the name of the correct phylum and the Aquarium gallery in which the organism can be found beside each animal pictured below:

	Phylum	Aquarium gallery
OYSTER	______________________	________________________
RATTLESNAKE	______________________	________________________
ALLIGATOR	______________________	________________________
SEA WHIP	______________________	________________________

Sea stars and sea urchins are in the same phylum. Find them and

1. describe three characteristics that both species have in common.

 

2. describe two characteristics unique to each one.
   

Find the fossilized skull of an organism that is now extinct. Name this organism.

Using your answer to question above, name the adaptation the organism had that its nearest living relatives do not have.

Name an organism found in the Aquarium that is both a producer and a carnivore.

Why would this organism be both a producer and a consumer?

List an abiotic characteristic of the soil in the areas in which this particular type of organism is most often found.

Find and describe an example of a symbiotic relationship between two animals in the Aquarium.

Name an animal in the Aquarium besides a bird that exhibits nesting behavior. Describe the behavior.

List three ways that human population growth may be affecting ocean ecosystems.

All of the living animals in the Great Ocean Exhibit are members of the Superclass Grathostomata (common name: fish). The sharks in this exhibit are classified in the Class Chondrichthyes while the rest of the fish are classified in the Class Osteichthyes (the bony fishes). Name five characteristics that are similar between the sharks and the other fish and that may be reasons why they are both classified in the same Superclass. Name three of the characteristics that are different between sharks and bony fish and that may be reasons they are separated into different classes.