Excellent Echinoderms
The name of the phylum that includes sand dollars, sea stars, and sea cucumbers.
Echinodermata
This cnidarian prefers warm water, is a favorite dish of sea turtles, and is a poor swimmer - it prefers to ride the currents.
Jellyfish
This animal is known as an important filter for the ocean waters.
Sponge
These parasitic creatures suck the blood from their hosts.
Leeches
Which of the following animals is not a cephalapod: octopus, nautilus, squid, or jellyfish.
Jellyfish
Fishermen discovered that these animals do not die when cut in half, but rather regenerate into two animals.
Sea stars
The meaning of the word "cnidarian".
Nettle - remember, they have a powerful sting!
All plants and animals are composed of these tiny building blocks.
cells
The name for the animal with hundreds of jelly-like creatures linked together.
Man-of-war
This common land animal resembles the aquatic chiton.
Pill bug
Brittle stars use these to move across the ocean floor.
Arms
These cnidarians have tublelike bodies, stinging tentacles, skeletons, and many sea animals depend upon them.
Coral
A microscopic animal with two cilia-covered projections that spin like wheels to bring food to the mouth.
Rotifer
Different types of these animals include barrels, bowls, vases, and tubes.
Sponges
The term for how cephalapods swim.
Jet Propulsion
This animal loves to eat sea urchins.
Sea otter
These creatures help coral by acting like a fertilizer, making nutrients for the coral.
Zooxanthellae
These microscopic animals are also known as "water bears".
Tardigrades
The name for the dead body of a sand dollar.
Test
The number of arms of both a cuttlefish and squid.
10
This animal "spills its guts" as a defense against predators.
Sea cucumber
This is the characteristic common to polyps and medusae.
They both sting - otherwise, polyps have waving tentacles, while medusae have dangling tentacles; polyps are attached, and medusae float.
Water Bears and other microscopic creatures are found in so many bodies of water because of this force of nature.
The wind.
The name of the specialized cells which inject a poisonous dart into the body of enemies.
Nematocysts
These are two defenses of a cephalapod.
Excellent eyesight, ink, jet propulsion - they do not have a hard shell.