What is single coiled shell, referred to as univalves which means one shell.
100
What snail feeds on dead or dying organisms?
What is a mud snail?(Ilyanassa)
100
How do Cephalopod creatures catch prey?
Their tentacles and a sharp parrot-like beak.
100
What is the largest swimming mollusc and invertebrate?
What is the giant squid? (Architeuthis)
200
The two shells of a bivalve are hinged together at one end and kept closed by what?
What is a adductor muscle?
200
What is the most common gastropod?
What is a snail?
200
What snail feeds on live clams?
What is a moon snail?
200
What are three types of Cephalopods?
What is squid, cuttlefish, and Nautilus?
200
What is the mollusk that has no tentacles or eyes on its head called?
What is a chitons?
300
How many species of clams are there?
What is 15,000?
300
What does their open circulatory system consist of?
What is a one-chambered heart and tiny blood vessels?
300
What snail has a harpoon-like radula and uses toxins to kill its prey?
What is a cone snail?
300
How does an octopus attack?
It injects its paralyzing venom into its prey with their bite.
300
What is one unique characteristic that chitons have that other mollusks don't?
What is their overlapping shells?
400
What is the reproduction process of a bivalve?
Since Bivalves have different sexes the fertilization is external, females release their eggs into the water along with males' sperm and the eggs become fertilized.
400
How does a snail breath?
Snail takes in oxygenated WATER and the gills inside the snail take up the oxygen and give off carbon dioxide.
400
How does the reproduction of snails happen?
Fertilization is internal and development is external. Some produce their eggs into the water while others release into a protective covering.
400
What is the difference between a squid's tentacles and an octopui's tentacles?
A squid has ten tentacles with two that are longer than the rest and an Octopus has 8 tentacles with suction cups that they use for climbing and crawling.
400
How do tusk shells eat?
They use long thin tentacles with sticky ends to push food into their mouths.
500
How does a bivalve build its shell?
The mantle in the bivalve contain shell glands that secrete calcium carbonate that produces the bivalve's shell
500
What do all typical gastropods possess that helps them scrape off and ingest algae?
What is a radula?
500
What is the snail's operculum
What is a think pad of itssue that closes like a trap door over its foot?
500
What is the pigment that cephlopods use to camouflage to avoid being seen by predators or when they are hunting prey?
What is chromatophores?
500
What is one example of what Native Americans used to do with tusk shells?
They would turn them into ornaments, make necklaces, or used them as wampum (currency).