The soft body is protected by a hard _______ made of calcium carbonate.
All mollusks have a muscular ____________ usually used for movement
Mollusks also have a ____________________ , containing most of the internal organs
The heavy fold of tissue that drapes over the visceral mass and in some species secretes a shell.
Chitons have a very distinctive shell made up of a series of eight overlapping and articulating __________covering the dorsal, or back, surface
Chitons eat ________________.
Chitons belong to the Class.....
Snails and slugs belong to the class
Gasstropods can be _____________
What side does the shell of most gastropods lean to?
Sea slugs ___________ have a shell.
Class Bivalvia means ___________
All bivalves have a hinged, two-part shell and powerful adductor __________ to bring the two halves tightly together.
Most bivalves are ______________
Clams, scallops, oysters, and mussels are in Class _______________.
Water is drawn into the mantle cavity through an incurrent siphon after which it passes over the gills and then exits the mantle cavity through an excurrent
The largest cephlopods are the _________________
Cephalopoda means _______________
Class Cephalopoda are ____________________
The shell of Cephalopods is usually _________________ and internaly or missing altogether
Only the ____________________ retains an external shell.
Cephalopods move quickly through the water by ____________ propulsion
Cephalopods are the only mollusks with a ______________ circulatory system, meaning their blood is always contained in vessels.