A leather star is a member of this phylum.
What is Echinodermata?
The leather star has this many arms.
What is five arms?
The leather star causes the Stomphia spp (swimming anemone) to perform what action?
What is swimming?
The leather star moves using these.
What are podia (tube feet)?
A leather star is found in this habitat.
What is the rocky intertidal?
DAILY DOUBLE: A leather star has this kind of symmetry.
What is pentaradial symmetry?
A leather star uses this circulatory fluid as a substitute for blood.
What is seawater?
A leather star is considered a(n) ___vore.
What is an omnivore?
Podia (tube feet) are located on this side of the leather star.
What is the oral side?
The leather star's iconic texture is because of this substance that it secretes.
What is mucus?
A leather star is a member of this class?
What is Asteroidea?
The side of a leather star facing away from the benthos is this side.
What is the aboral side?
Leather stars hunt these animals.
What are anemones or sea squirts?
Leather stars respire using this system.
What is the WVS and hemal system?
DAILY DOUBLE: Leather stars are known to smell like this pungent vegetable.
What is garlic?
Leather stars can clone themselves through this method of asexual reproduction.
What is autotomization?
The gray/brown parts of the leather star’s skin are made up of this.
What are calcareous plates?
A leather star’s biggest predator in Oregon is this organism.
What are seagulls or larger sea stars?
Orange outcroppings along the leather star’s skin are known as what.
What are skin gills?
The leather star resides at this maximum depth.
What is 100 meters?
The leather star displays this type of embryonic development.
What is a deuterostome?
A leather star’s eyespots are located on this part of its body.
What are the ends of each arm?
DAILY TRIPLE: The leather star is attracted to this curious worm more than food items.
What is Arctonoe vittata?
Circulatory fluid enters the leather star through this organ.
What is the madreporite?
The leather star in our lab has this name.
Who is Theodore?