Invertebrates

Hannah Carrington &Kaytlyn Simmonds

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CnidarianExample: Jellyfish

.Definition: An animal with tentacles that have the ability to sting its prey or

predators..body systems: Shaped as a vase/ bowl. Definition from seawater into tissues. Cells obtain there oxygen of water. They do not have lungs or gills, breath through gas exchange over there body..Reproduction: Cnidarians reproduce both sexually and asexually.

.Food: They eat there prey or there predators they sting the prey and then shove it in their mouth. Small crustaceans - lobster, crabs, shrimp, barnacles. Once the

food is digested waste leaves through the mouth..habitat: Theirs water and other fish and a lot of other things. They mostly live in water.

.Predators & Problems: Spadefish, sunfish, loggerhead turtles. Getting caught in fisher men’s nets on accident.

.Adaptions & fun facts: They do not have to have blood flow, they use diffusion, they don’t have lungs or gills. hc

NematodesExample: Hookworms

Definition: An animal, with a round tube like body, that has a digestive

system with two openings. Body Systems: Two openings one is the mouth the other is were it

poops. It has muscles.

Reproduction: (Sexual) It also has sex organs that enable it to

produce sexually. Food: Two opening. Feed on the animal they live in.

Habitat: Live in other animal and sometime humans live in soil.

Predator & Problems: People who eat undercooked meet.

Adaptations & Fun Facts: Life cycle: fresh water snail, human hosts then mature in humans body. hc

MollusksExample: Clam

Definition: An animal with a soft body and no bones. (shell, soft body, gills)

Body Systems: Filter feeders, kidney’s, muscles, nerve chord, intestants, gills

Reproduction: Sexually, Release eggs and sperm into the water, where the eggs fertilize. Then they develop into larvae. Each can be an adult

Food: They eat food particles. Take in an push out water through organs called siphons

Habitat: Southern Pacific Ocean, coral reef

Predators & Problems: People who eat clams, and lobsters eat clams

Adaptations & Fun Facts: Latin word mollusks means soft

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EchinodermsExample: Star-Fish

Definitions: An invertebrate that has an internal skeleton and spines that are part of its skin. (suction cups, tubed feet)

Body Systems: Radial symmetry, no brain, nerve system

Reproduction: Sexually, there arms have sex organs. Females release millions of sperms. Eggs hatch in to larvae

Food: They rap there arms around its prey using there suction cups. (muscles)

Habitat: Live only in the ocean Predators & Problems: People who eat starfish Adaptations & Fun Facts: Echinoderm mean’s spiny and skin in

Latin.

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Kaytlyn Simmonds &

Hannah Carrington

*Invertibraes

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* Porifera Example: Venus flower basket

* Definition: A type of animal that filters the water it lives in to get food.

* Body Systems: Sponges do not have symmetry. They use their nervous to stick itself places.

* Reproduction: they are asexual because a bud brakes off and creates a new sponge.

* Food: They filter the water to get food. They eat from fresh water , streams and oceans.

* Habitat: It’s habitat is the ocean floor , rocks , other animals , human made structures and mostly in shallow water.

* Predators & Problems: It’s predators are larvae , sponge flies , turtles , shrimp and some fish.

* Adaptions & Fun Facts: What helps sponges is that they always have to stick to something to keep themselves from dying.

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* Platyhelmentas Examples : Tapeworm

* Definition: A animal such as a platinarian , that has a flatend body , and digestive system with only one opining and a simple nervous systems.

*Body Systems: They have bilateral symmetry. They have a simple nervous system.

*Food: They can eat other animals.

*Habitat: They live in fresh water strems , ponds , lakes , under rocks and mud.

*Preaditors & Problems: To eat they have to extend a tub out of there body.

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* Anilids Example : earthworms

.Definition: An animal such as a earthworm who’s body’s are made up of connected segments.

.Body system: There circulatory is like tubs that act like a hart.

. Reproduction: There sexual because they have to get with a mate.

. Food: It eats soil and it also eats dead plants.

. Habitat: Grassy land and in soil.

. Predators: Birds and owls.

. Adaptations: They breath from there moist skin.

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*Arthropods Example:Bugs

*Definition : An animal that has a jointed exoseliton and jointed limbes.

*Body Systems: They have a stronge nervous system.

*Reproduction : Sexuel because they have to get with a mate.

*Food: They can eat gunk off other animals

*Habitat: Land and water.

*FACTS:they have hard shells

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