Squid Webquest
Go to the website: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/squid/Squidprintout.shtml
1. Is a squid a vertebrate or invertebrate?
2. Refer to your answer for #1 - Why?
3. How do squids move?
4. What do squids do when they are in danger?
5. Refer to #4 - Why do they do this?
6. How do squids reproduce?
7. What do squids eat?
8. What types of organisms eat squids?
Go to this website: http://www.mbari.org/midwater/squidink/
9. Click on the sixth video of Dosidicus gigas and watch the squid releasing ink from the funnel.
Go to the website: http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-photos/giant-squid-beak-and-radula
10. What is the squid’s tongue called?
11. Label this organ in the picture to the right.
12. What is this organ covered with?
13. Why do pieces of food have to be really small before they pass into the
esophagus? Be specific.
Go to the website: http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/midorcas/animalphysiology/websites/2005/plekon/bioluminescence.htm
14. How many species (genera) of squids are bioluminescent?
15. What are the two ways that squids can produce bioluminescence? (Use stems; gen = producing)
Go to the website: http://www.sdnhm.org/archive/kids/lightsalive/biolum2.html
16. What are four uses of bioluminescence?
1) ___________________________________________
2) ___________________________________________
3) ___________________________________________
4) ___________________________________________
17. Under bioluminescent squids: What does one squid do when attacked?
Beverly Owens
[email protected]
Go to these websites to complete the external (outside) diagram.
External:
http://wwwbio200.nsm.buffalo.edu/labs/tutor/Squid/
Front
Back
a.
b.
c.
Pen
f.
d.
e.
g.
Go to these websites to complete the internal (inside) diagram.
Internal:
http://wwwbio200.nsm.buffalo.edu/labs/tutor/Squid/
http://llabiology.blogspot.com/2009/04/squid-anatomy.ht ml
Beverly Owens
[email protected]