Marine Vocabulary Bennett

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Across
  1. 4. A system of classifying living things into groups which are related
  2. 5. Animals that capture and eat other animals.
  3. 8. The physical place where an organism lives.
  4. 12. The phylum of diverse animals which include both animals with backbones and without
  5. 13. The phylum of soft bodied animals.
  6. 15. Usually microscopic plants and animals that float or drift in the sea or freshwater.
  7. 16. The process of development of a species or organism from early primitive form to their present state.
  8. 17. The end part of a leg or muscular disc that a snail or slug moves on.
  9. 18. The removal of internal organs.
  10. 20. A tube like organ used by clams, octopus and other mollusks for drawing water in and out of there bodies
  11. 21. an accumulation of decayed organic material.
  12. 24. A barbed, threadlike stinger found in anemones , jellyfish, and other cnidarian animals.
  13. 27. To escape or get away.
  14. 28. Animals that have no backbone.
  15. 29. Living on the bottom
  16. 31. Marine slugs.
  17. 32. Animals such as clams, oysters, and scallops which have two shells are often called Bivalves
Down
  1. 1. Animals that are eaten by other animals are called prey.
  2. 2. A color, shape or behavior that helps an animal to hide.
  3. 3. The shedding of the exoskeleton.
  4. 6. The phylum of invertebrates with spiny skin such as sea stars, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins.
  5. 7. The alternate rise and fall of the surface of the ocean and sea.
  6. 9. A special characteristic of a living thing which helps it to survive in it's environment.
  7. 10. Long, slender, flexible growths that may be used in feeding, locomotion, or various sensory activities.
  8. 11. A classification of plants and animals with common distinguishing characteristics.
  9. 14. The phylum of invertebrate animals with specialized stinging cells.
  10. 19. feet Numerous small, water filled fleshy tubes.
  11. 22. A fundamental biological division.
  12. 23. Hard outer coverings.
  13. 25. They part of the beach covered with water when the tide is in and uncovered when the tide is out
  14. 26. Animals that have backbone.
  15. 30. One of the broad, principal divisions of the plant or animal kingdom.