The name for a group of fishes
What is a school?
These invertebrates include snails, clams, and squid.
What is a mollusk?
The process in which a crustaceans routinely casts off a part of its body
What is molting?
This habitat can be found near the rocky shores
What is a kelp forest?
The production and emission of light by a living organism
What is bioluminescence?
The name of this fish
What is Anglerfish?
These invertebrates include crabs, shrimp, and barnacles.
What are crustaceans/arthropods?
Sea stars, sand dollars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins
What are echinoderms?
Smaller animals are found near this habitat
What are animals found in the kelp forest?
A form of camouflage mostly used in the open ocean.
What is countershading?
Fishes are this type of animal
What is a vertebrate?
To allow for the invertebrate to create more space to grow.
What is why invertebrates molt?
soft bodied, bilateral symmetrical, radula
What are the characteristics of mollusks?
Sunfish, whales, sharks, squids, copepods, krill
What are animals found in open oceans?
The average temperature where coral reefs grow.
What is 68 degrees fahrenheit?
The number of fish specimens at the museum
What is about 5 million?
Number of mollusk specimens at NHM
What is 4.5 million?
Snails and slugs are this type of mollusk
What are Gastropods?
Barnacles, mussels, limpets, anemones, hermit crabs, sea stars
What are animals found in rocky shores/tidepools?
The way deep-sea plants produce food without sunlight
What is chemosynthesis?
The number of fish specimens that are uncatalogued at NHM
What is about 2 million?
These invertebrates include sea jellies, coral, and anemones?
What are cnidarians?
The percent of all animals that are invertebrates
What is 97%?
The average temperature of the deep sea
What is 39 degrees fahrenheit?
Cnidarians capturing prey with special stinging cells called
What are nematocysts?