1. Marine Life

2. We will cover • 6 Types of Animals • Sponges and Sea squirts • Sea Anemones • Worms • Molluscs • Crustaceans • Echinoderms • Vertebrates • Invertebrates • Animal Habitats • Types of Animals

3. Invertebrates • No back bone • Soft Body • With or without shell • Shell called exoskeleton • Examples • Crabs • Mussels • Jellyfish

4. Vertebrates • With Backbone • Internal skeleton • Endoskeleton • Examples • Fish • Seals • Dolphins • Snorkelers

5. Animal Habitats • The Sea covers 70% earths surface • Free swimming animal known as Motile • Worms, jellyfish, fish, seal, whales • Attached and does not move known as Sessile • Mussels, oysters, anemones, sponges

6. Sponges and Sea squirts • Simple animals • Filter feeders • Plankton and Oxygen • Rounded, cup or bowl shape • Many small pores • Large cavity in centre • Colonies encrust rocks and other surfaces

7. Sea squirts

8. Sea Anemones • Jelly like animal • Look like flowers • Carnivorous • Sting can be painful • Some can retract tentacles • Coral large colonies Great Barrier Reef • Jellyfish large anemone that can swim

9. Jellyfish • Common/moon Purple • Compass Brown • Compass tentacles sting similar to nettle sting • Snorkeler protected by neoprene • Beautiful to watch • Traps food with tentacles

10. Worms • Similar to garden worms • Live in mud and sand • Marine worms called Polychaetes • Two groups swimmer or non swimmers • Ragworm swimming predator • Lugworms live in sand identified by sand coils

11. Molluscs • Large group - mussels, oysters, whelks, top-shells, sea slugs etc. • Soft body, head, single foot cover by hard shell • Most feed by licking algae off rocks • Dog Whelk predator nick-named “driller killer” • Bi-valves filter feeders

12. Crustaceans • Crabs, lobsters, prawns • Exoskeleton • Crabs and lobsters have • 5 pairs of legs, decapods • Legs have different uses swimming, defence, walking • Not all crabs have own shell • Hermit crab

13. Echinoderms • Starfish, sea-urchins, brittlestar, sea- cucumbers • Starfish common in intertidal zone • Commonly seen by snorkelers • Starfish feed by inserting their stomach in prey • Sea urchin graze on algae on rocks

14. We Covered • Vertebrates • Invertebrates • Animal Habitats • Types of Animals • 6 Types of Animals • Sponges and Sea squirts • Sea Anemones • Worms • Molluscs • Crustaceans • Echinoderms

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