2. Can you distinguish a head or a head end? If so, by what
peculiarities?
3. State whether the body is segmented or not, and, if it is, whether
the segments are alike in form and appearance, _i.e._ whether the
segments are uniform.
4. State whether the animal is bilaterally symmetrical, radially
symmetrical, or without symmetry.
5. Compare this worm with the earthworm as to sense organs.
6. What organs for respiration has it?
7. What special protective devices has it?
8. If possible, find out and state where this worm lives. What can
you see in the structure of this worm which enables it to live where
it does?
Summary of the Comparative Study of Worms
1. Name the different worms you have studied. What characteristics
have they in common?
2. What different methods of obtaining food do they show?
3. What variations do they show in senses? in sense organs?
4. Which one seems to you best adapted to its habitat? In what ways?
_Suggested drawings._
a. One drawing of each worm studied.
Review and Library Work on Worms
1. What are the distinguishing characteristics of worms?
2. Give the classes of worms, and the authority for this
classification.
3. What kind of soil do earthworms seem to prefer? Why should they?
How do they form their burrows? What are the castings around the
mouth of a burrow? How are they placed there?
4. In what ways do earthworms benefit the soil? How great is their
effect estimated to be?
5. Give a brief sketch of the life of Charles Darwin, noting
especially the work he did with earthworms.
Why is Darwin's work on earthworms noteworthy: because it is such
a large proportion of the work he did, or because it is so much
of the work which has been done on earthworms?
6. How are earthworms protected against the cold of our winters? What
limits the northern range of earthworms?
7. Where are earthworms found geographically? Why are they so widely
distributed? By what means are they extended from one locality to
another?
8. How do earthworms reproduce? What care do they take of their
young?
9. What tissues or organs of earthworms correspond in function with
the ectoderm of hydra; with the endoderm? Why does an earthworm need
a system of blood circulation more than a hydra does?
10. Contrast the number of openings in an earthworm's alimentary
canal with the number in a hydra's digestive cavity. Which plan seems
a better one? In what respects?
11. Contrast a cross section of hydra with one of earthworm as to the
number of cavities. Which seems to you the better plan? Why?
12. Why does a nereis need more respiratory surface than an earthworm
does?
13. Comparing earthworm and nereis, in what respects is the earthworm
degenerate? How does it manage to succeed so well with such a
degenerate body?
14. What is a parasite? How many hosts does a typical parasite
require for its development? Which host is known as the intermediate
one?
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