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15 Cards in this Set
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Haloplankton
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Organisms that spend their entire life as plankton
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Meroplankton
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organisms that are plankton temporarily such as larvae
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Zooplankton |
animal or animallike organisms
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Bryozoans
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small aquatic animals that form mosslike or branching colonies
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Porifera
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an animal phylum comprising the sponges
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Detritus
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small particles of dead or decaying organism
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Coelenterates
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animal phylum which contains hydras, jellyfish, sea anemones and corals
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Cnidarians
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animal phylum that has stinging structures
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Echinodermata
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animal phylum with exoskeletons, often covered with spines and radial symmetry
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Mollusca
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invertebrate animal phylum with soft unsegmented body, and mantle
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Gastropods
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mollusks with a single coiled shell, muscular foot, and eyes and feelers
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Bivalves
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a mollusk with two hinged valves such as an oyster clam
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Cephalods
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marine mollusks with an ink sac such as an octopus, squid, or cuttlefish
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Arthropods
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an animal phylum with organisms with a segmented body, jointed limbs, and a shell made of chitin
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Chordata
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animal phylum consisting of organisms with a dorsal nerve cord, notochord and gill slits
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