VOCAB
A community of living organisms (biotic factors) interacting with their physical environment (abiotic factors) in a specific area
What is an ecosystem?
What are jellyfish?
What are some examples of echinoderms?
Sea star, sea cucumber, sea urhcins
Arthropods have a hard-outer shell called this.
What is an exoskeleton?
Who wanted to build the salt production company because they would gain 25 Million per year in profits?
The Mitsubishi Corporation
The natural environment where an organism lives, providing it with food, water, and shelter
What is a habitat?
They have stinging cells called this.
What are cnidocytes that contain nematocysts.
A network of internal tubes filled with fluid used for locomotion and feeding. It includes tube feet, which are small, suction-cup-tipped appendages
What is a water vascular system?
What is CHITIN?
Who wanted to prevent the building of the salt production company because it would harm the landscape, increase noise pollution, affect hydrology (water's movement) and decrease water temperature?
The Environmentalists
The largest domain
What is kingdom?
How do jellyfish reproduce?
Asexually by budding and sexually by releasing eggs and sperm.
Echinoderms have the kind of symmetry that mirrors the left side and right side.
What is bilateral symmetry?
What are the parts of the arthropods body?
The head, thorax, abdomen and tail.
Why is San Ignacio considered a SANCTUARY or SAFE HAVEN for the grey whale population?
This where the grey whales mate and raise their calves.
The scientific name of an organism is determined by this...
The Genus and Species
Many jellyfish use jet propulsion to move and others are immobile or....
What is sessile?
Unlike a scorpion with an exoskeleton, echinoderms have one on the inside like humans.
What is an internal skeleton?
OPEN circulatory system
This means they agreed to specified land the government would allow the development of companies on in order to protect habitats and ecosystems.
An animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate,
What is an invertebrate?
What is a brain?
What is regeneration?
What are some examples of arthropods?
Bees, mosquitos, grasshoppers, shrimp, lobster, scorpion, dragonfly, etc...
Which other species are affected by the development of the salt production company?
Sea turtles, fish, sea birds, land animals