Learn from a Worm
Animal skeleton that is outside the body.
Exoskeleton
Animal that lives attached to a rock. Doesn't move around.
Sessile
Animal that has a backbone or spine
Vertebrate
Animals that strain their food from the water around them
Filter feeders
Creatures that eats both plants and meat
Omnivore
Creature in the polyp stage that moves around by somersaulting.
Hydra
A piece of the animal falls off and grows into a new animal.
Budding
Animal that doesn't have a spine
Invertebrate
Creatures that feed inside and outside of another animal causing it harm
Parasite
Where skeletons of ocean creatures build up over time to make a ______.
Reef
Nematoda are ____ worms.
Round
Animal group that has tiny holes all over its body.
Porifera
The longest reef in the world, just off Australia is called the ____ _____ Reef.
Great Barrier
Jewelry, filters, home for fish, and blocks for houses.
Uses of Coral
Elephantitus, swelling of the leg, is caused by _____ worms.
Filarial worms
Creatures that can't make their food. They have to feed.
Heterotroph
Worms that come up through the feet.
Hookworms
Long, flat worm, attaches to intestine wall, caused by raw or uncooked meat.
Tapeworm
Creature that has a polyp stage and a medusa stage.
Jellyfish
Creature that lives in a snail, parasite, found in tropical areas.
Flukes
Platyhelminthes worms are ______ worms.
Flat
Trichinosis worms are in what two animals?
Rats, Pigs
Soft bodied animals with tentacles in a circle around their mouth.
Cnidaria
Creatures that feed on decaying material at the bottom of the ocean.
Detritus feeders
Cell that has a nucleus and membrane enclosed organelles.
Eukaryotic