Marine Animals
Across
- 3. A bell-shaped, free-swimming cnidarian form, like a jellyfish.
- 6. Eggs with a protective shell and internal membranes that allow them to be laid on land.
- 8. Organisms that live on or in the seafloor/lake floor.
- 10. Body parts arranged around a central point, like spokes on a wheel.
- 12. An organ in pregnant mammals that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall for nutrient uptake and waste removal.
- 13. Body can be divided into two matching left and right halves.
- 18. A hydraulic system used by echinoderms for movement, feeding, and gas exchange.
- 19. Animals that have a backbone or spinal column.
- 20. Animals that produce their own body heat internally.
Down
- 1. A type of asexual reproduction where a new organism grows out of the body of the parent.
- 2. A lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.
- 4. Animals that rely on external environmental temperatures to regulate their body heat.
- 5. A gas-filled organ in fish that helps them control their buoyancy.
- 7. An organism that has both functional male and female reproductive organs.
- 9. A firm, flexible connective tissue that makes up the skeleton in some fish and joints.
- 11. Specialized glands in mammals that produce milk to nourish their young.
- 14. An internal skeleton that supports the body, made of bone or cartilage.
- 15. The process of shedding an exoskeleton to allow for growth.
- 16. Animals that lack a backbone or vertebral column.
- 17. A tube-shaped, sedentary (attached) cnidarian form, like a sea anemone or coral.
- 21. A hard outer shell that protects and supports the body.