Characteristics
What is a bivalve?
Siphon tubes
What is used for feeding and eating?
Scallop
What is the fastest bivalve?
food
Why do we harvest bivalves?
Adductor muscle
What is used to open and close the shell?
Calcium carbonate
What is the shell made of?
Adductor muscle
What keeps bivalves closed?
An oyster
Which bivalve is known for producing pearls?
A ring
How I can tell the age of a bivalve?
Scallop
What is the fastest bivalve?
Pearl
When sand or food is lodged in the mantle
Mantle
What is the inner portion of a bivalve?
Mussels
What has a black, oval shaped shell?
one year
How many years does 1 ring equal?
filter feeders
What bivalves are called for cleansing the water
Mollusk
What is a bivalve?
Muscular foot
What a bivalve uses to dig in the sand
Clams
What is eaten mostly by seagulls and people?
Calcium carbonate
What forms around the grain of food or sand to produce a shell?
gills and mantle
Where food particles get stuck?
Water Quality
What are bivalves good indicators of?
Ligament
What bivalves are hinged together with at one end
Oysters, clams, mussels and scallops
What are types of bivalves?
Favorable growth conditions
What do large bands indicate on a bivalve's shell?
plankton and organic debris
What is in the water during filter feeding?