Cnidarians
Jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals are examples of what?
What are Cnidarians (nih dahr' ee uhnz) ?
This household item can be useful if stung by a jellyfish.
What is vinegar? (It neutralizes the poison and reduces the pain caused)
This jelly-like layer is in between 2 layers of skin called the epidermis and the gatrodermis of a jellyfish.
These are the flowers of the sea.
What are sea anemones?
This sea animal builds protective walls around themselves.
What is coral?
Cnidarians with tentacles that wave above them.
What are polyps?
Jellyfish like to hang out in this kind of water.
What is warm water?
Jellyfish hang out in swarms that are called this.
What are smacks?
Anemones use this to kill or paralyze small fish or other unsuspecting animals that happen to pass too closely.
What are tentacles?
Coral gathered together building skeletons around themselves form large structures called this.
What is a coral reef?
Cnidarians with tentacles that hang below them.
What are medusae (meh doo' say)?
Some jellyfish raise to the surface of the water at night and sink to the deep ocean by day to avoid predators. There is one particular creature they have to be careful of on the ocean floor though. It loves to eat jellyfish.
What is a sea star?
What is a jellyfish bloom?
The hole in the center of the sea anemone.
What is a mouth?
This type of water is where you will find corals.
What is warm, shallow, and clear water.
Cnidarian's stinging cell.
What are nematocysts (nih mat' uh sists)?
The main predators of jellyfish.
What are squids and sea turtles?
The larval form of a jellyfish.
What is a planula (plan' yuh luh)?
This keeps certain sea creatures from getting stung by an anemone.
What is a special coating of slime?
This is the largest coral reef, located near Australia.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
This cnidarian has nematocysts that can penetrate a human's skin.
This particular turtle loves to feast on jellyfish.
What is a leatherback sea turtle?
The largest jellyfish, with tentacles that can be over 100 feet long.
What is a lion's mane jellyfish?
A sea anemone reproduces two ways. One way is when a small bump grows on the anemone's body. That bump grows bigger and then pinches off from the body, setting onto the seafloor and growing into a separate polyp. This is called what?
What is budding?
This phytoplankton gives the coral polyp nutrients when it is captured.
What is zooxanthellae (zoh zan thel' lee)?