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Invertebrate Facts for Students

Invertebrates are animals without backbones or internal skeletons. They make up 97% of all animal species and are divided into groups like worms, mollusks, insects, and coral. Many invertebrates have hard shells or exoskeletons on the outside of their soft bodies to protect themselves. Examples are snails with shells, insects with exoskeletons, and crustaceans like crabs with hard shells on their 10 legs.

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Invertebrate Facts for Students

Invertebrates are animals without backbones or internal skeletons. They make up 97% of all animal species and are divided into groups like worms, mollusks, insects, and coral. Many invertebrates have hard shells or exoskeletons on the outside of their soft bodies to protect themselves. Examples are snails with shells, insects with exoskeletons, and crustaceans like crabs with hard shells on their 10 legs.

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Invertebrates

Luis Mario Villegas Navarrete


3° A
Invertebrates are animals without They are divided
backbone or internal skeleton. in this groups:
• Invertebrates come in different
shapes and sizes.  Worms
 Mollusks
• 97 percent of all animals  Insects
are invertebrates  Coral
Marine and freshwater invertebrates
Terrestrial invertebrates
Exoskeleton
• Many invertebrates have hard shells
or external skeletons to protect the
soft bodies.

• Some mollusks, such as snails, have a


hard shell where they can hide when
in danger.
Slugs and snails
Snails have soft bodies covered in slime.

They also have a hard shell to protect


them.
This common snail has a fairly fragile shell.

But snails living underwater often have


much heavier shells.
Worms
Worms are invertebrates with no
legs, with a head and a tail.

They all have long soft bodies .


Centipedes and
millipedes
Centipedes are carnivores, they eat
insects and worms
They have a poisonous bite to help them
kill their prey.

Millipedes are herbivores,


they eat plants.
Sea Mollusks
Octopuses and squids

• have soft bodies, but their tough


skin and strong muscles protect
them.

• have eight arms.

• They are fast-moving hunters


with keen senses and big brains.
Arachnids Spiders have a skeleton outside their bodies.

This hard outer shell is divided into sections


with joints between them.
Scorpion – Arachnids The scorpion body has two sections.
group The front part is called cephalothorax
and the rear is called abdomen.

Both sections are covered with an


armor.
Insects

Insects' bodies are divided in three


parts: head, thorax and abdomen.

All Insects have six legs, most insects


have wings.

Each part is protected by


exoskeleton.
Crustaceans
In this group are shrimps, crabs and lobsters , all
have 10 legs.

The front two legs have pincers they can use to


catch food and fight off predators.

They have hard shells .


Jellyfish
Jellyfish are marine invertebrates with no
brains, no bones, no heart, and no eyes.

They have soft, transparent bodies and


tentacles.

Marine invertebrates include sponges,


corals, jellyfish, anemones, and
starfish.
Questions

•¿What is the principal characteristic of invertebrates?

•¿How many legs have the arachnids?

• ¿How many legs have the Insects?

•¿How many legs have the crustaceans?

•¿What are the parts of the insect's body?

•¿Where insects have their legs and wings?

•Tell two characteristics of sea mollusks

•¿What is exoskeleton?
¡¡ Thank
you
for your
attention
!!

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