Intertidal zones
Mainly barnacles, limpets, and sandhoppers live here.
what is the splash zone
This interesting mollusk has eight arms.
What is an octopus.
This part of the seaweed holds it to the ocean floor like the root of a plant.
What is the holdfast
Crabs have this many legs.
What is ten
This zone has the most animals and algae living in it.
What is the low tide zone
This animal can eat by pulling apart bivalves such as clams and mussels.
What is a sea star
Bivalve means the animal has this.
What is two shells.
These are the three colors of seaweed.
What is red, green, and brown
This type of cnidarian animal has stinging cells and a bell shaped body.
What is a jellyfish
This zone is exposed to the air half of the time.
What is the mid tide zone
The meaning of the word echinoderm.
What is spiny skin
This mollusk uses "byssal threads" to attach to rocks.
What is a mussel.
This type of plankton makes food from the sun.
What is phytoplankton
These sea creatures are related to slugs.
What is a nudibranch
Intertidal organisms must be able to withstand this.
What is drying out or dessication.
This flat echinoderm is a type of sea urchin.
what is a sand dollar
Mollusks have this mass of soft flesh that covers the soft body and holds the internal organs.
What is a mantle.
A type of plankton that eats other plankton.
What is zooplankton
What is the longest a sea urchin can live?
What is 200 years
The tides are caused by this.
what is the moon
Many echinoderms have this shape.
What is a star
Many mollusks use this rasp-like tongue for eating or drilling holes.
What is a radula
This hardy algae has "floats" to hold it up in water, and can survive well in dry conditions.
What is Rockweed
Some sea anemones can do this to reproduce.
What is cloning themselves