Miscellaneous
Means "stomach-footed"
What is a gastropod?
Locomotion or movement through large muscular
What is a foot?
2 ways gastropods breathe.
What are lungs and gills?
Adapted to eat a variety of food
What are plants, dead organisms and live prey?
Some species are separate
What are sexes?
Includes snails and slugs
What is a diverse group of mollusks?
Consists of a one chamber heart and tiny blood vessels
What is the circulatory system?
First, upper set of tentacles carry these
What are eyes?
Rough, tongue liked organ.
What is a radula?
Some species are both male and female
What are hermaphrodites'?
2/3 of all mollusks.
What are gastropods?
This grows and develops with the snail its whole life.
What is a shell?
Second, lower set of tentacles are used for
What is sensory or senses?
This type of snail feeds on clams
What is a moon snail?
This is how fertilization takes place?
What is internal?
Means one shell
What is univalve?
Shell is made of this.
What is calcium carbonate?
Thick pad of tissue that closes like a trapdoor over the foot for protection.
What is an Operculum?
Moon snail secretes this to soften clamshell.
What are chemicals?
This is how development takes place.
What is external?
Adapted to climb or crawl for
What is food?
This is colorless.
What is blood?
Reduces friction
What is mucus?
This type of snail harpoons their prey with toxins.
What is a cone snail?
These are deposited directly in to the water or someplace protective.
What are fertilized eggs?