Echinoderms Exploration
A worksheet for 5th graders to learn about echinoderms, their characteristics, and examples.
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Echinoderms Exploration
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Echinoderms are fascinating marine animals that live in the ocean. The word 'echinoderm' means 'spiny skin' because many of them have spines on their bodies. They have a unique body plan, often with radial symmetry, meaning their body parts are arranged around a central point, like the spokes of a wheel.
1. What does the word 'echinoderm' mean?
Soft body
Spiny skin
Fast swimmer
Small size
2. Which of these is a common characteristic of echinoderms?
They live on land.
They have feathers.
They have radial symmetry.
They lay eggs in nests.
3. Echinoderms are marine animals, meaning they live in the .
4. Many echinoderms have on their bodies, giving them their name.
5. All echinoderms have exactly five arms.
True
False
6. Starfish are a type of echinoderm.
True
False
7. Name two examples of echinoderms.
8. Describe one way echinoderms are different from fish.
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