Marine Animals
Across
- 2. An organism whose body temperature is largely determined by heat exchange with its surroundings
- 3. an organism that has both male and female reproductive organs
- 4. a Gorgon, a monstrous creature with snakes for hair and the ability to turn onlookers to stone
- 5. (in an echinoderm) a network of water vessels in the body, the tube feet being operated by hydraulic pressure within the vessels.
- 7. the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane.
- 8. lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.
- 9. a tough, flexible connective tissue that provides support and protection to various parts of the body.
- 13. a gas-filled sac present in the body of many bony fishes, used to maintain and control buoyancy.
- 15. a non-cancerous growth that protrudes from the surface of an organ or tissue
- 16. a flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.
- 18. (of an animal) dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat.
- 20. an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
Down
- 1. an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate, etc.
- 4. (of an animal) shed old feathers, hair, or skin, or an old shell, to make way for a new growth.
- 6. an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
- 10. Eggs that contain an amnion
- 11. a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.
- 12. modified sweat glands that produce and secrete milk for nourishing infants or young mammal
- 14. symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower.
- 17. (of a plant) having or developing buds.
- 19. anything associated with or occurring on the bottom of a body of water.