Fact or Fiction

• Earthworms are covered in tiny hairs that

  help them grip the soil and move.

• Earthworms eat soil as they burrow,

  getting nutrients from decomposing

  organic materials.

• Earthworms like the sunshine and can be

  found in deserts.

• Oyster reefs provide a natural barrier to

  storm waves.

• These oysters only live in deep waters.

• Oysters filter water, trapping plankton

  and other particles in their gill mucus.

• Male peacock spiders do a dance

  by waving their tails and legs to

  impress females.

• Peacock spiders are the size of a golf ball.

• They can jump really far - about 20 times

  their body length.

• Cleaner shrimps travel in large groups.

• Cleaner shrimps perform a rocking

  dance to let fish know they are ready to

  start cleaning.

• Cleaner shrimps feed on dead skin and

  parasites from bodies of other fish.

• Leeches live on every continent, apart

  from Antarctica.

• Once leeches are done with feeding from

  an animal, they fall off the animal.

• All leeches feed on blood of other animals.

• Their muscular ‘foot’ helps them move by

  releasing mucus.

• Giant African snails lay about 20 eggs

  at a time.

• These snails hide inside their shells from

  predators or when it gets too cold.

• Most millipedes feed on decomposing

  plant and animal parts (they are

  detrivores).

• Millipedes have 1000 legs.

• They curl up into a tight coil and might

  release a horrible smell if a predator

  comes close.

• Jellyfish are 50% water.

• Moon jellyfish have no brain,

  blood or heart.

• They catch their plankton prey using a

  layer of mucus over their bell.

• A sea urchin has no brain.

• Some sea urchins are poisonous.

• A sea urchin has no mouth.

• Yellow slugs feed on fungi, decaying

  matter and vegetables.

• Yellow slugs can grow up to 30cm long.

• Yellow slugs use one pair of tentacles on

  their head to sense light and another pair

  to sense smells.