Marine Vocabulary Bennett

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