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Mollusks
Cephalopods
Squid
Octopus
Other
100
ink, camouflage, excellent eyesight
How does a cephalopod defend itself?
100
head foot
What does "cephalopod" mean?
100
The "monsters" believed to be behind many fishermen's scary sea stories.
What are giant squid?
100
The number of rows of suckers on the arms of an octopus.
What is two rows?
100
chromatophores
What allows cephalopods to change color?
200
It has eight arms?
What is an octopus?
200
jet propulsion
How do cephalopods swim?
200
Asian people eat squid almost as frequently as people in the United States eat this.
What is chicken?
200
An octopus does this at night.
When does an octopus feed?
200
Through a tube in its shell, it sucks air to rise and water to sink.
How does a nautilus move up and down in the water?
300
It has ten arms.
What is a cuttlefish? What is a squid?
300
fish and crabs
What do cephalopods usually eat?
300
covers most of a squid's BODY and is what we cut up, fried and ate last week
What is the mantle?
300
A vision problem that humans have but octopuses do NOT have.
What is a blind spot?
300
cuttlebone
What is the internal shell of a cuttlefish called?
400
It can have between 38 and 90 arms.
What is a nautilus?
400
a beak
What kind of mouth does a cephalopod have?
400
the name for a group of swimming squid
What is a shoal?
400
They have seen octopuses problem-solve and play games.
Why do scientists believe octopuses are very smart?
400
it was compared to a pill bug
What is a chiton?
500
A mollusk with that forms an oval-shaped shell with overlapping plates
What is a chiton?
500
octopus, squid, nautilus and cuttlefish
What are the four kinds of cephalopods?
500
The book compared a giant squid's eye to this.
What is a basketball?
500
A poisonous octopus that lives off the coast of Australia.
What is the blue-ringed octopus?
500
It has an external shell.
What is different about a nautilus compared to other cephalopods?