Sea Cucumbers

by Jody S. Rake

Overview

Readers will learn just how amazing sea cucumbers can be. The many species of this ocean invertebrate may not look like other undersea animals, but they have some amazing adaptations and behaviors that help them survive. Without faces, limbs, bones, blood, or a brain, sea cucumbers have incredible ways eating, moving, reproducing, and defending themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515721406
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	08/01/2016
Series:	Faceless, Spineless, and Brainless Ocean Animals
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	8.12(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.31(d)
Lexile:	550L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Jody Sullivan Rake specializes in writing about any and all animals. After earning a zoology degree from San Francisco State University, she became an educator and science writer at SeaWorld in San Diego. She still lives in San Diego.

Table of Contents

No Backbones 4

Slug of the Sea 6

Crawling on Tube Feet 8

What's for Lunch? 10

A Body without a Brain 12

Sea Cucumber Life Cycle 14

Protection for Easy Prey 16

People and Sea Cucumbers 18

Amazing But True! 20

Sea Cucumber Facts 21

Glossary 22

Read More 23

Internet Sites 23

Critical Thinking Using the Common Core 24

Index 24

Interviews

Takes a high-interest approach to the study of ocean invertebrates by focusing on their unique characteristics and abilities Hits key curriculum points including, adaptations, behavior, reproduction, variation of species, consumption, and defense Includes a diagram with labeled parts of each creature and basic facts about that organism