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the tale end of a crab |
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| algae |
very simple plants found in the ocean |
| anemone |
a sea animal that looks like a flower |
| antennas |
a pair of jointed, movable sensory
limbs |
| apertures |
openings found in abalone shells |
| barnacle |
a crustacean who lives its life stuck
to one thing, like rocks |
| beach flea |
sand hopper |
| benthic |
living on the seafloor |
| bilaterally symmetrical |
can be divided into equal halves
with a head and a rear |
| bivalve |
a mollusk with shells, connected
by a hinge |
| byssus |
rope like strands by which mussels
anchor themselves to a solid surface |
| camouflage |
the way a animal's coloring hides
it from predators |
| carnivore |
animals that eats other animals |
| chemoreceptors |
A sensory nerve cell or sense organ that responds
to chemical stimuli. |
| cilia |
tiny hairs found along the edge of
a shell , used for moving about or for creating a current |
| crustacean |
animals like crabs, lobsters or shrimp
that have segmented bodies with a hard protective shell |
| echinoderms |
marine animals having radiating parts, like sea
urchins, sea stars and sea cucumbers |
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| exoskeleton |
a hard covering of a crustacean's
body |
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| gills |
organs for getting oxygen from the
water |
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| habitat |
the kind of place in which an animal
lives, such as a tide pool |
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| herbivore |
an animal that eats plants |
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| high tide |
the highest point to which water
regularly rises on the seashore |
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| intertidal |
The region of the beach that is sometimes, but
not always, under water |
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| invertebrates |
animals without a backbone like octopus,
sea anemone, and starfish |
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| larva |
an early stage in the life of a creature |
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| lichen |
a mixture of algae and fungi that
grows on rocks |
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| low tide |
the lowest point to which water regularly
falls on the seashore |
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| mantle |
The part of the mollusk that covers
the main part of the body,controls breathing and makes a shell. |
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| metamorphosis |
a change of form that an animal goes
through as it grows up |
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| mollusk
(molluscs) |
a soft-bodied animal, like a clam
or squid |
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| molting |
This is what happens when an animal
gets too big for its shell and loses it. The old shell comes
off and a larger shell grows |
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| mussel |
a sea animal that has a long shell |
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| omnivore |
an animal that eats plants and other
animals |
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| pelagic |
living in the open ocean |
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| pincers |
the claws of a crab |
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| plankton |
tiny plants and animals, too tiny
to see, that live in the water |
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| photosynthesis |
a process by which plants convert
carbon dioxide and water to sugars using energy from the sunlight
and producing oxygen |
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| predator |
an animal that kills other animals
for food |
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| prey |
an animal that is hunted by another
for food |
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| radially symmetrical |
divided into two equal halves like
the top and bottom of a wheel |
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| radula |
rasp-like tongue with tiny teeth
found in many mollusks |
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| ray |
the arm of a starfish |
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| regeneration |
the ability to grow new body parts
to replace parts that have fallen off |
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| scallop |
a sea animal that has a shell with wavy
edges |
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| species |
Creatures that are extremely similar
to one another belong to the same species. |
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| sperm |
a male reproductive cell which fertilizes
a female's eggs |
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| swimmerets |
the lobster's small legs where she
carries grapelike clusters of eggs |
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| tentacles |
slender arms in animals, especially
invertebrates like sea anemones |
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| tide pool |
a pool of water left on a rocky seashore
after the tide has gone down |
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| zoea |
the kind of larva that hatches from
crabs eggs |
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