Vertebrates and Invertebrates What are they Vertebrates are

Vertebrates and Invertebrates

What are they? • Vertebrates are animals that have a back bone. This includes marine life such as sharks, dolphins, whales, turtles, fish and sea horses. • WHEREAS, • Invertebrates are animals that lack/ don’t have a backbone. Marine life that are invertebrates include sponges (Porifera), jellyfish, sea anemones, corals (cnidarians), flatworms, molluscs, sea stars and sea urchins (echinoderms).

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Answer! • Jellyfish are INVERTEBRATES because they do not have a backbone. Fun facts • An upside down jellyfish is a sea anemone • They eat and poo from the same hole! HOW DISGUSTING!!!! • First appeared 650 million years ago, before DINOSAURS!!

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Answer! • Shark (Bruce) are VERTEBRATES because they do indeed have a backbone. Fun facts • The average shark has 40 -45 teeth and can have up to seven rows of replacement teeth. Because sharks lose a lot of teeth and grow them back quickly, they often go through more than 30, 000 teeth in a lifetime. • Measuring only seven inches long, the dwarf lantern shark is the smallest shark in existence

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Answer! • Sponges (SPONGEBOB) are INVERTEBRATES because they don’t have a backbone. Fun facts • Sponges can contain 16, 000 other animals inside of it. • When a part of a sponge breaks off, the broken part will form a new sponge. • A new type of sponge is found yearly.

Answer! • Sea stars (PATRICK) are also INVERTEBRATES because they don’t have a backbone. Fun facts • If a starfish is chopped into pieces, each piece can grow a whole new starfish. • Starfish are not completely blind, even though they do not have eyes. Starfish sense light and shapes through an eyespot (an organ sensitive to light) located at the tip of their arms. • They are not fish.

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