Classification
Squids, octos, and snails are examples of this kingdom of life.
What is anamalia?
Squids, octopus, and cuttlefish all have 8 of these appendages.
What are arms?
This appendage allows bivalves to dig and burrow.
What is a foot?
This portion of the squid covers the majority of the body, and has 2 fins attached to it.
What is the mantle?
What is the one class of molluscs that we did not discuss?
What are gastropods?
This is the second largest grouping of organisms in the natural world (excluding domain).
What is a phylum?
Squid have two of these appendages that are lined with suckers with teeth.
What are feeding tentacles?
A single oyster can filter up to this many gallons in 24 hours.
What is 50 gallons?
This is the oldest portion of a bivalve
What is the umbo?
What is the target for oyster populations in the Bay in 2025?
What is 12%?
This phylum contains cephalopods, gastropods, and bivalves.
What is Mollusca?
All cephalopods have color changing cells in their mantle called these.
What are chromatophores?
The primary source of food for bivalves is algae and bacteria floating in the water column. This makes them this type of predator.
What is a filter feeder?
Squids have 3 of these organs.
What are hearts?
Cephalopods have this appendage that allows them shoot ink, and propel themselves through the water.
What is the siphon?
This class of molluscs contains snails, whelks, and slugs.
What is gastropoda?
Instead of teeth, cephalopods have this structure for breaking up their prey.
What is a beak?
This anatomical term describes something that is farther away from the midline of the body.
What is lateral?
Human researchers have finally been able to capture this mollusc on camera for the first time.
What is the Giant Squid?
What is the correct order for the organization of life?
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
The name "Cephalopod" means this.
What is "head-foot"?
A bivalves shell is made of this chemical compound
What is Calcium Carbonate?
This plane divides the body into a front and back half.
What is the sagittal plane?
This cephalopod separates itself from others because it has a hard outer shell, which is different from all other cephalopods!
What is the chambered nautilus?