By Josh Baker and Stephen Corbin INVERTEBRATES
By
Josh Baker and Stephen Corbin
INVERTEBRATES
PoriferaVenue's flower basket sponge
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*Definition-A type of an animal that filters the water it lives in to get food.
*Body system- No body systems or symmetry.
*Reproduction- They have asexual reproduction and they grow from parents sponge.
*Food- They get there food from the water and move it from cell to cell.
*Habitat- They live in shallow waters and attach themselves to hard surfaces.
*Predators-There predators are Sea turtle
*s, fish, shrimp, and freshwater sponges.
*Adaptations- Scientists know about 5000
*specifies of sponges.
CnidarianBox Jelly Fish
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* Definition- an animal with tentacles that have the ability to sting its prey and predators.
* Body system- radial symmetry, with body parts arranged in a hub of a wheel or umbrella
* Reproduction- sexually and asexually, the egg is fertilized and it falls to the bottom of the ocean and turns into a polyps and grows into a grown up
* Food- they eat small fish or any food it bumps into it stings the food
* Habitat- the usually live in salt water and sometimes in fresh water. They are sometimes found by beach's.
* Predators- tuna, shark, swordfish, sea turtles pacific salmon and sea birds. Fisher men catch and sell jelly fish.
* Adaptations- jelly fish have tentacles or stinging cells to capture or attack there predators and prey
Arthropods Insects, Lobsters
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*Definition: an animal that has a jointed exoskeleton and jointed limbs.
*Body Systems: Two openings, legs, brain, and circulatory system.
*Reproduction: Lays eggs ,Sexually.
*Food: They have legs around their head using them to capture and carry their pray to the mouth.
*Habitat: Almost anywhere on Earth.
*Predators:
*Adaptions: They have claws that help them survive because they can use it to defend themselves. As they grow they grow another skeleton to fit their body.
NematodesTrichianella
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*Definition- an animal with a round like tube shaped body, that has a digestive with two openings.
*Body system- sex organs, simple organs, nervous system
*Reproduction- they reproduce sexually and have sex organs
*Food- they have two openings to eat and poop, they might live on the inside of an animal and feed off them
*Habitat- they might live in people and animals, they also live in the ground
*Predators- they get picked up out of the ground when people tend there gardens or shovel
*Adaptations- they can live in people and animals
PlatyminthesFlatworm
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*Definition-An animal such as a planarian that has a body a digestive system with one opening and a simple nervous system.
*Body system-Has a special type of skeleton.
*Reproduction-By mating and laying eggs and also asexual.
*Food- They live in another animal and feeding on animals.
*Habitat- They live on land and water
*Predators- Small fish
*Adaptations- When something grows off it can regenerate.
EchinodermsNorthern Sea Stars
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*Definition-an invertebrate that has an internal skeleton and spines that are part of its skin
*Body system- no brain but has a nervous system to help eat, radial symmetry
*Reproduction- they are sexually and asexually they can grow parts they drop millions of sperms and eggs that make larva
* Food- they mainly eat mollusks by sticking its guts in there mouth and eating
*Habitat- they live in the ocean
*Predators- when there is pollution in the water they can die
*Adaptations- they can reproduce there arms and when in half it can make two whole new animals
Annelids
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*Definition- an animal such as earth earthworms whose body is made up of connected sections, or segments.
*Body system-Five enlarged tubes act as hearts. The tubes pump blood through the major vessels of the worms body. These major vessels branch into smaller vessels.
*Reproduction- Sexual, After worms mate, both partners lay eggs and produce a slimy covering that forms a cocoon protecting the eggs fertilizing eggs develop and soon worms hatch from them.
*Food-They eat through their mouths. They dig in the soil and eat nutrients.
*Habitat- Underground, where there is good dirt.
*Predators-
*Adaptations-They have five tubes connected to their heart.
MollusksGiant Octopus
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*Definition- an animal with a soft body and no bones
*Body system- they have a brain and a nervous system
*Reproduction- sexually, releases eggs and sperms and develop to larva and grow to be a grown up
*Food- they can capture with there tentacles and put in beak-like-mouth
*Habitat- these animals live every where from the ocean to the land
*Predators- sharks and big fish eat the eggs and baby's
*Adaptations- jet motion to move out quickly and they squirt ink
Sources
Book Resources
*Harcourt Science
*All about star fish
Internet Resources
*Wikipedia