ECHINODERMS

One of the largest and most familiar classes within the Phylum Echinodermata. The animals, commonly known as sea stars or starfishes.

• HOLOTHUROIDEA

• ASTEROIDEA

• DETRITIVORE

• ECHINOIDEA

The class that belongs to the phylum Echinodermata. Ex. the sand dollars, and sea urchins.

• HOLOTHUROIDEA

• ASTEROIDEA

• FILTER FEEDER

• ECHINOIDEA

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A class of echinoderms that comprises the sea cucumbers.

• HERBIVORE

• ASTEROIDEA

• ECHINOIDEA

• HOLOTHUROIDEA

The process by which some organisms replace or restore lost or amputated body parts.

• HERBIVORE

• FISSION

• REGENERATION

• TUBE FEET

The process where an individual divides into parts due to changes in the strength of connective tissue of the body wall.

• FISSION

• REGENERATION

• DETRITIVORE

• TUBE FEET

Any organism that feeds on detritus or organic waste. Ex. sea cucumbers.

• PREDATOR

• DETRITIVORE

• HERBIVORE

• FILTER FEEDER

Any organism that eats only plants.

• PREDATOR

• DETRITIVORE

• HERBIVORE

• FILTER FEEDER

An organism that kills and eats another organism, its prey.

• HERBIVORE

• DETRITIVORE

• FILTER FEEDER

• PREDATOR

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

An animal that obtains its food by filtering organic matter or minute organisms from a current of water that passes through some part of its system.

• DETRITIVORE

• FILTER FEEDER

• HERBIVORE

• PREDATOR

One of the numerous external, fluid-filled muscular tubes of an echinoderm, such as a starfish or sea urchin, serving as organs of locomotion, food handling, and respiration.

• TUBE FEET

• REGENERATION

• FISSION

• ECHINOIDEA

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2