Arthropods
What may have caused the extinction of trilobites?
The flood
How can you tell the age of a clam?
Counting its rings on the shell
What gastropod has no shell?
Nudibranch
What does a male octopus usually do after it mates?
Die
What is the internal shell of a cuttlefish called?
Cuttle bone
A land animal that looks like a Chilton.
What is a pill-bug or roly-poly?
The outside or exterior skeleton. (double jeopardy)
What is an exoskeleton?
How do antennae help crustaceans?
They help them sense, touch, smell, and taste.
The jagged knife-like organ of a gastropod used to eat
What is a radula?
Which bivalve may be able to help with the plastic problem in the oceans?
Mussels
The mouth part of a cephalopod.
What is a beak?
Describe a chiton.
What is a harmless sea creature with 8 plates covering its back, with many eyes, and is in its own class called Polyplacophora, meaning "many plates"?
What does the word arthropod mean?
Joint foot
What is the telson of the horseshoe crab?
Its tail
What kind of gastropod makes a shell that has a wide, pearly colored lip that flares outward?
Conch
In oysters, when a foreign object gets inside its shell this is formed.
What is a pearl?
How cephalopods swim.
What is jet propulsion?
The paper nautilus or Argonauta Argo does this. (double jeopardy)
What is a female octopus that builds a shell-like structure before releasing eggs?
A species that other species depend upon for survival.
What does it mean to be a keystone species?
What features of the Bivalve are used to feed, filter the water, and breathe? (double jeopardy)
Their siphons
What does the term gastropod mean?
stomach foot
A creature whose name means Head foot
What is a cephalopod?
Four different kinds of animals in the cephalopod group.
What are octopus, squids, cuttlefish, and nautilus
What is ink, suction cups, the ability to change color and texture, and jet propulsion
What is a decapod?
What is the main difference between bivalves and gastropods?
Bivalves have two shells attached together, and gastropods have one shell.
What kind of gastropod has a shell with several large holes?
Abalones
Ways octopuses are intelligent
What are: playing games, opening jars, climbing out of their aquariums, changing colors, fitting into small spaces, etc?
The differences between the nautilus compared to other cephalopods. (double jeopardy)
What has an outer shell and many arms?
How does the nautius move up and down in the water?
By filling with or releasing gas from it's shell.