Section 1 (Pages 14-53) Flashcards
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What is the definition of invertebrate
It has to do with bones
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A boneless animal/Living thing
No internal jointed skeleton
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What is the most successful group of invertebrates
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Insects
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Bilateral symmetry
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Right and left sides are mirrors of each other
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Type of symmetry sponges have
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No symmetry
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Type of symmetry sea stars have
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Radial symmetry
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The majority of invertebrates have these 3 things in their body plan
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a head (with a brain & sensory organs)
A body with legs
A tail end
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Insects, Crustaceans, Myriapods and Arachnids belong to this invertebrate phylum
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Arthropods
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What percentage of all animals on earth are invertebrates
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97%
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How do sponges gather food?
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By filtering water
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A segmented worm is also known as an
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Annelid
or Segmented Worm
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What phyla of invertebrates has “spiny skin”
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Echinoderms
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Sea urchins, starfish, and sea cucumbers belong to this phyla
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Echinoderms
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Which ocean drifters draw prey into their transparent bodies?
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Comb jellies
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These animals have stinging cells
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Cnidarians
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Sea anemones, coral, and jellyfish belong to this phyla
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Cnidaria
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The fish that can resist a Jellyfish
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The pacific butterfish
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Thin, flexible skin between arthropod segments allows
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movement
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The thing that squeezes the Jellyfish’s body to push it through the water
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Muscle fibers
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The Pacific sea nettle lives by ______
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Snatching small animals in the ocean
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The Jellyfish has two purposes for its mouth to eat and to ___
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Expose waste
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An adult Jellyfish produces a small larvae called___
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Planulae
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These grow into ____ Shapes
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Flower
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The ___ arms gather prey for the Jellyfish
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Oral
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The sea nettle grows up to ____ inches
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30
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Sea nettles cannot ____ images, but it can ___ light and dark
see, sense
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They do this using their ______
Organs
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How do soft-bodied invertebrates maintain their shape?
Muscles and body fluids
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Exoskeletons provide ________________ and _________________ in Arthropods
Support, protection
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Shells prevent snails from losing
Moisture
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Hard exoskeletons stop growth, so animals must occasionally do this to continue growing
Shed their exoskeleton
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In which environment do invertebrates wait for food to come to them?
Marine (Ocean) Environment
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In which environment do invertebrates have to search for things to eat?
Land
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Where do blue mussels live
Coastal seas in colonies on rocks
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Mussels gather food by
filtering water through their bodies to collect food particles
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Sea anemones catch small animals with
tentacles
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The sea fan is made of tiny feeding _________________ that all share the same ____________________
Polyps, skeleton
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Arachnid & Comb Jellies are both examples of
Invertebrates
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What Comb Jelly is up to 30 inches and lives in the north pacific ocean?
Pacific Sea Needle
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I am an atlantic anemone, I'm often seen in coastal tide pools & have pink & green Tentacles
due to microscopic algae, what am I?
Snakelocks Anemone
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What are 3 examples of Invertebrates?
Aracnids,
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The Common lobster has a _____ which it uses to paddle
Tail Fin
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The common lobster's feet are used to help with _____
Feeding
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Most of the lobster's _____ is supported by the water
weight
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The _____ are the thickest part of the lobster's body
Claws
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The rear part of the _____________ is _______ to allow the muscular tail to move
Exoskeleton, Jointed
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A pair of long _______ helps the lobster feel its way in the dark
Antennae
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Each ___ is made up of hundreds of different tiny mirrors
eye
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If a lobster loses a ____, a ___, or an _______, then it can grow another one
Claw, Leg, Antenna
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The massively armored lobster lurks in ________ on the Rocky ______
Crevices, Seabed
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The head and front part of the body are protected by a solid section called the _______
Carapace
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Water fleas are very important ____ to fish
Food
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Each water flea's body is enclosed by a Protective______
Carapace
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This makes the water flea look ___________
Transparent
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The water flea is about ___ an inch
1/4
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Tiny water fleas swarm in _____ and _______
Ponds and streams
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Acorn barnacles can get confused with a _______
Mollusk
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These barnacles are relatives of ______
Shrimp
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The ______ shell gives this barnacle protection
Chalky
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The acorn Barnacles grow up to ___ cm
2.2
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when they mature, they settle on _____
Rocks
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Fish Lice are _________
Parasites
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This one uses its 2 _______ ____ to cling to a fish
suction cups
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Piercing the scaly skin with its sharp __________
Mouthparts
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It can also ____ if it needs to find a new victim.
swim
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The Fish Lice can grow up to _ MM or __ an inch
7, 1/4
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Billions of tiny ________ live in the ocean
Copepods
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Where they feed on microscopic ________ ______
Drifting algae
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This species builds up thick reserves of___
Fat
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The copepod is a vital _____ _____ in the arctic
Food source
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The copepod grows up to ___ an inch or ___ MM
1/4, 5.2
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Mantis shrimps are formidable _________
Predators
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Some have ______ that are sharp barbed tips for ______
claws, Spearing
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This one has club-like claws that it uses for ___________ its prey
Punching
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The _______ _____ are adapted for targeting prey
Stalked eyes
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It can grow up to _ In or __ CM
7, 18
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The woodlouse is also called a ____ ___
Pill Bug
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It is one of the few ____________ that live on the ____
Crustaceans, Land
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Its segmented armor helps retain __________________
Vital Body Moisture
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But despite this, it cannot live in very ____ places
Dry
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It eats _______ Plant material
Decaying
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The deep sea amphipods are relatives of ______
Shrimp
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Found in all _____ and ____________
Seas, fresh water
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It scavenges the remains of ____ ________ that have settled on the ocean floor
Dead Animals
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It grows up to _ inches or __ Centimeters
6, 15
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The deep sea Amphipod lives in the deep seas of the _________ ocean
Southern
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Shrimplike ______ Live in Vast swarms
Krill
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Drifting with the ocean currents and feeding on Microscopic ________
Plankton
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The Atlantic krill is the most ___________ Species.
Abundant
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It is the main food for the ________ ________
Antarctic penguins
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It can grow up to ____ Inches
2 1/4
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The Banded coral shrimp feeds by
Picking parasites and flakes of dead skin of fish
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The fish could easily ____ the shrimp.
Eat
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But they _____ its ______ to do any harm
Value, Services
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It lives around the _____________ region
Indo-pacific
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t can grow up to
2 1/4 an inch
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The signal crayfish lives in _____ and ______
Rivers and lakes
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Where it eats any _______ and ________ it can find
Animal and Plant material
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It is Native to _____ __________
North America
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It was introduced to Europe, where it is now considered a _____
Pest
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It can grow up to ____ inches
7
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I'm an atlantic anemone that is often seen in coastal tide pools & I have green and pink tentacles due to the microscopic algae, what am I?
Snakelock Anemone
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What are 3 examples of invertebrate?
Arthropod,Arachnid,Echinoderm
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This comb jelly is one of the most dangerous sea creatures? What is it?
The box Jelly fish
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The giant squid is up to _______, ft and lives in the______.
40 1/4 ft & Twilight Zone
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This invertebrate is located in the East Atlantic, what is it?
Common Lobster
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This invertebrate lives in N. Africa to the N. W. India. It eats leaves, seed, fruit, and bark.
Desert Locust
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The Wood Louse or Pill Bug is one of the few crustations that can live on _____ & is also up to ___in.
Land & 3/4.
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I am a small arachnid that loves to prey on small animals. I use my spider silk to line my burrows and mat where I lay my eggs. What am I?
A mexican red knee tarantula
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Crabs shrimps and lobsters are all examples of what type of invertebrate?
Crustacean
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When the emperor scorpion gives birth to young she lets them hitch a ride where?
her abdomin
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A vampires squid body is cover in what?
Light producing organs
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Why is a vampire squid called it's name?
Due to its blood red coloring
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What is a vampire squids diet?
Edible debri and other small invertebrate
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What type of mollusk is a giant squid?
Cephalopod
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T or F? A giant squid is rarely seen dead,
False
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The giant squid has the largest body and what other body part?
eyes
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T or F? The giant squid's eyes are bigger than soccer balls?
True
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What is the greater blue ringed octopuses diet?
Crabs, fish & other small prey
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What is the size of the greater blue ringed octopus?
4 inches
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The greater blue ringed octopus uses its extremely venomous bite to do what?
Immobilize its prey
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T or F? The greater blue ringed octopus has neurotoxins.
True
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What is a chambered nautilus remembered by?
its coiled multi-chambered shell
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Where does the chambered nautilus live?
Mild Waters
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How does a chambered nautilus regulate its buoyancy?
Adjusting the amount of gas in its shell
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T or F? The Chambered Nautilus has eyes with lenses?
False
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Where does a common Chambered Nautilus usually hunt?
Shallow Sea Beds
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The common cuttlefish is covered in what?
Nerve controlled color cells
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How does the common cuttlefish hunt?
By seizing prey with its two extending tentacles
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What does a common cuttlefish use its color changing ability for?
Changing its pattern to express its mood, hide, or startle predators
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What does the Common Cuttlefish and the opalescent Inshore squid have in common?
Feeding technique and color changing ability.
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What is the opalescent inshore squid adapted for?
Speed
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How does the opalescent inshore squid shoot through the water?
Jet propulsion
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What is the opalescent inshore squids diet.
Fish, crabs and other cephalopods
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How many suckers are on each
tentacle on a giant pacific octopus?
250
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T or F: The suckers on a giant octopus are weak.
False
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Why does the giant octopus have so many suckers?
To have a good grip on prey
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Why do the suckers on the giant octopus have to be so strong?
To rip open clams & crabs to get their soft flesh
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What is the giant octopus's diet?
Fish Mollusks and Crustations.
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what does the giant pacific octopus prey on?
Animals that prey by a rocky sea bed.
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T or F: the giant pacific octopus is not the biggest octopus.
False
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What can the giant pacific octopus do?
Squeeze through the smallest gap then shoot off like a missile.
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The giant octopus is what?
extremely flexible
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What is the flexibility of the giant octopus.
Elastic
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Water is forced out of what on a octopus?
Siphon tube
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Why does water come out of the siphon tube?
To propel the animal along
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An octopus can do what?
Shoot out an ink cloud
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near the siphon tube is what?
The ink sack
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Why do octopuses shoot out ink?
To protect them self
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How could you describe a octopuses beak?
Like a parrots bill
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What do octopuses use their beak for?
To crack shells of crabs, clams & other similar animals.
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When an octopus opens a crabs or clams shell what does it inject it with?
Digestive venom
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Why do octopuses inject their prey with digestive venom.
To sofin the flesh
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Why do octopuses make their prey's flesh soft?
So the octopus can scoop the flesh out with it's tongue.
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What does the octopus do with the empty shell?
Discareds it
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What is a cephalopod?
(sef-lo-pod)
animals that have suckers, ink sacks, tentacles, highly developed brains and eyes.
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What are 2 examples of cephalopods?
An Octopus and squid.
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What is the meaning of cephalopod.
Head foot.
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Why is the meaning of cephalopod its meaning?
Because of how the limbs of the squids, octopuses seem to be connected to it's head.
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T or F: Cephalopods are a diverse class of Mollusks.
True
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What are two examples of gastropod?
Snails and slugs.
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How do snails and slugs get around?
On one muscular foot.
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What do all slugs, snails, squids, and octopuses have in common?
They are all mollusks.
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What do some gastropods have?
Shells
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What are the main groups of mollusks?
Cephalopod,gastropod, and bivalves.
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What can some gastropods do?
Go on land if they have a shell.
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Most mollusks are what?
Colorful
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Mollusks are very _______.
diverse
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What is the definition of the mollusk?
Mostly invertebrate that live in the water.
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What does the lined Chiton do?
It makes groups of its own.
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How does the lined chiton get around?
By climbing over rocks
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What do slugs, snails and lined chitons have in common?
They all have a muscular foot that they get around on.
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T or F: the lined chiton has no eyes or tenticals.
True
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What cell does the lined chiton have on it's body?
Cells that can red light.
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What is this species of lined chitons diet?
Marien alge
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True or false you can only find gardon snails in america.
false
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what do gardon snails glide over?
plants and the ground.
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When garden snails move what do they leave?
Slimy mucus
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Where does a garden snail go when the weather is dry?
It's shell.
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The red rams horn shell lives where?
The serface
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Where does the red rams horn shell hunt?
The ocean
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What us the queen conch?
A giant marine snail
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What is the queen conches diet?
seagrass and seaweed
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Where does the queen conch live?
Tropical seas
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What is the queen conche known for?
Its pinkish shell
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What is a nudibranch
a shell les animal
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Where does the Spanish shawl nudibranch is what?
A sea slug.
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Where does the spanish shawl Nudibranch store it's sting shells?
It's tentecals
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What are their tentacles for?
defence
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What does the blue sea slug prey on?
Other drifting prey including some jellyfish
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What does the blue sea slug do?
Drift on the surface of the ocean.
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What deadly weapon does the textile cone shell have?
a little harpoon that has vonome that is uses on its prey.
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What cool ability does the textile cone shell have?
It can extend its mouth.
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True or false a textile cone shell can swallow a whole fish?
True.
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Can the venom in a textile cone fish kill a human?
yes
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does the textile cone fish have a siphon tube?
Yes
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Where can you find a textile cone fish?
The indo pacific
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Are the colors on the textile cone fish ugly?
No
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What is the scientific name for the textile cone fish?
conus textile
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What is the nickname of the textile cone fish?
Partridges
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What is the tail of the common lobster called?
Tail fan
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What is the tail fan used for?
To propel the animal aloung
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What can the feet of the lobster be used for?
Feeding.
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True or false, Lobsters have swimming feet.
true
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What are the swimming feet called on the common lobster.
Swimmerts.
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Why are the legs on a common lobster so small?
Because most of the weight is sopported by the water.
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