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Mollusks21.1
Chapter 21.1 of Biology: God's Living Creation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mollusks | The largest group of water animals on earth |
| Foot | A muscular appendage mollusks' use to move around |
| Visceral Hump | A lump in a mollusk that contains the internal organs |
| Mantle | A skinlke organ which covers the visceral hump and produces a calcium carbonate shell |
| Gastropods | Univalves, such as the snail, slug, and whelk |
| Bivalves | Mollusks such as clams, mussels, oysters, and scallops |
| Cephalopods | Mollusks such as squids, octopi, cuttlefish, and chambered nautilus |
| Pearl | Sheets of nacre built up around an irritant in an oyster |
| Adductor Muscles | Muscles in a bivalve that connect the two halves of it's body |
| Mantle Cavity | The open chamber where the gills are located |
| Incurrent Siphon | A tube in a bivalve that takes water into the mantle cavity to the gills |
| Univalves | Mollusks that have a single shell |
| Slugs | Gastropods which look like snails without shells |
| Radula | A rough, filelike organ that scrapes food and carries it into the digestive tract |