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