sea life crossword puzzle Gyuri
Across
- 3. microscopic plants and animals that float or drift in the sea or freshwater
- 6. numerous small, water-filled fleshy tubes
- 8. the phylum of invertebrate animals with specialized stinging cells such as jellyfish, corals and anemones
- 9. the alternate rise and fall of the surface of the ocean or seas caused by the attraction of the moon and sun
- 11. a system classifying living things into groups which are related
- 15. the phylum of invertebrate animals with jointed limbs such as crabs, shrimp or barnacles
- 16. to escape or get away
- 22. invertebrate animals with spiny skin
- 23. animals that capture and eat other animals
- 24. a barbed, threadlike stinger found in anemones, jellyfish ant other cnidarian animals
- 25. a phylum of diverse animals which includes both animals without backbones and those without
- 26. a special characteristic of a living thing which helps it to survive on its environment
- 27. living on the bottom. plants and animals living in the bottom of the ocean
- 30. long, slender, flexible growths that may be used in feeding
- 31. animals such as clams, oysters nd scallops which have two shells
- 32. the shedding of the exoskeleton
Down
- 1. the physical place where an organism lives
- 2. the phylum of soft-bodied animals that includes snails, slugs, clams, oysters and octopus
- 3. one of the broad, principal divisions of the plant or animal kingdom
- 4. a fundamental biological division
- 5. an accumulation of decayed organic material
- 7. the part of the beach covered with water when the tide is in and uncovered when the tide is out
- 10. animal that have no backbone
- 12. hard outer covering
- 13. involving adaptions for better survival in their environment
- 14. the end part of a leg
- 17. the removal or expulsion of internal organs
- 18. marine slugs
- 19. a color, shape, or behavior that helps to hide an animal
- 20. animals that have backbones
- 21. animals that are eaten by other animals
- 28. first part of the two-part scientific name
- 29. a tube-like organ used by clams, octopus and other mollusks for drawing water in and out of their bodies