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invertabrates, part 2
ocs prince crayfish
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7th Grade
02/19/2011

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what are 8 things that u observe when you see a crayfish?
Definition
1. hard exoskeleton w/ bumps 2.several anntennae 3. more complex animal 4.eyes that pivit 5. chompers 6.Arthropod-"jointed-foot" 7. swimmerets 8. hairs [alot]
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what 2 things do you notice about a crayfish's exoskeleton?
Definition

-hard & red

-bumps and jointed

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what is the single piece of exoskeleton that covers the cephalathorax called?
Definition
the carapace
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how many pairs of apendages[legs] does the crayfish have?
Definition
>10
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how many segments make up the abdomen of a crayfish?
Definition
>8
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t/f  squid live in very deep waters
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false
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t/f  mother sperm whales r not very attentive to their young
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false
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how do sperm whales sleep?
Definition
upside down
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the primary food source for sperm whales
Definition
squid
Term
what is the term that defines the fact that squid eat eack other?
Definition
cannibals
Term
what is the term for the clicking noise that sperm whales make?
Definition
a coda
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length and weight of the largest squid ever found?
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30-60 feet and weighed about 1 ton
Term
what is the phylum for a clam?
Definition
Mollusca
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what does the clam have to cover it's body?
Definition
thin skin layer called the mantle
Term
what is the covering of the grasshopper?
Definition
1.an exoskeleton made of chitin 2. tactile hairs
Term
what is the grasshopper phylum?
Definition
Arthropod[joint-footed]
Term
what is the crayfish phylum?
Definition
Arthropod
Term
what is the starfish phylum?
Definition
Echinoderms
Term
     what is the octopus phylum?
Definition
Mollusca
Term
what is the covering of a crayfish?
Definition
a hard exoskeleton
Term
what is the covering for a starfish?
Definition
thick skin and spiny, hard, flat plates
Term
what is the covering for an octopus and squid?
Definition
thin, flexible skin
Term
what is the clam's method of support?
Definition
powerful muscles that keep it's shell closed
Term
what is the method of support for the grasshopper?
Definition
an exoskeleton connected to muscles
Term
what is the method of support for a crayfish?
Definition
exoskeleton connected to muscles and a muscular abdomen
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what is the method of support for a starfish?
Definition
a system of hard and flat plates just under the skin
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what is the method of support for th eoctopus and squid?
Definition
muscles and internal organs
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how does a clam move?
Definition
it sends out a muscular foot that pulls it across the sand
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how does the grasshopper move?
Definition
it jumps, walks, swims, or flys
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how does a crayfish move?
Definition
it walks or swims
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how does a starfish move?
Definition
it uses the water vascular system and has tubed feet that function like suction cups at the end of it's rays which helps it move
Term
how do octopi and squid move?
Definition
it moves it arms and anchors it's suction cups into the ground
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how does that starfish move?
Definition
that water vascular system
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name the steps of the water vascular system(also how the starfish moves)
Definition
water enters the sieve plate, water enters the stone canal, water enters the ring canal, water enters the radial canal in the rays, water shoots out of the ampula which allows the starfish to hydroplane
Term
what does Cephalapod mean?
Definition
HEAD-footed
Term
what is the pebble looking and feeling thing in the central disk of the starfish called?
Definition
that sieve plate
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