Calamar

High school (ages 12+)
Animals & Nature

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/calamar

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the diet?Carnivore; opportunistic predators feeding on fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and other cephalopods
2. What is a calamari?Calamari are squishy sea creatures that belong to the order Teuthida. They have a streamlined body, eight arms, and two longer feeding tentacles.
3. How do calamari move through the water?They use jet propulsion: water is drawn into their mantle cavity and then forcefully expelled through a siphon, giving them quick bursts of speed.

Cephalopod: A class of marine mollusks characterized by bilateral symmetry, a prominent head, and a set of arms or tentacles derived from the mollusk's foot.
Gladius (Pen): An internal, feather-shaped shell remnant providing structural support in squid, homologous to the external shell of other mollusks.
Bioindicator: An organism or biological process whose presence, absence, or condition reflects the quality of the environment.