CABRILLO NATIONAL MONUMENT PROJECT
DUE at the start of your regularly scheduled lab, the week of march 5
• 10% late penalty
• 0 points if turned in more than 1 week from your normally scheduled lab start time
INSTRUCTIONS:
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Put your name, visibly and clearly, on the first page of each your photo albums.
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Obtain images that show a good likeness of the following and cut to fit (4” x 6”) and
place, in order, in your photo album. Use both sides of each page. This will be your field
guide.
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Find images from a variety of sources - websites, field guides, magazines, books,
brochures, your own drawings even. Look at several images to get a good idea of what
that organism looks like before you choose an image. Remember, you will be using the
image to identify things on the field trip.
SEAWEEDS
1. rock weed
2. sponge weed (aka dead man’s fingers)
CNIDARIANS
3. giant green anemone
4. aggregating anemone
MOLLUSKS
5. owl limpet – note on photo “ size range: _____ - _____”
6. rough limpet – note on photo “ size range: _____ - _____”
7. giant keyhole limpet – note on photo “ size range: _____ - _____”
8. turban snail (black or brown)
9. wavy top snail
10. tube building snail
11. sea hare
12. mossy chiton
ARTHROPODS - CRUSTACEANS
13. blue-clawed hermit crab
14. striped shore crab
15. acorn barnacle
16. gooseneck barnacle
17. thatched barnacle
ECHINODERMS
18. brittle star
ARTHROPODS – animals with an
exoskeleton made of
chitin and jointed
appendages (“legs”)
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insects – bees, beetles, crickets (3 main
body parts, 6 legs)
arachnids – spiders, ticks, scorpions (2
main body parts, 8 legs)
crustaceans – lobsters, crabs, shrimp, (2
main body parts, 10 legs)
centipedes – (many body parts, 2
legs/segment)
millipedes- (many body parts, 4
legs/segment)
MOLLUSKS – animals (usually) with a
shell made of calcium
carbonate and other
characteristics features
(British spelling = mollusc”)
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CNIDARIANS – animals with simple “bag
in a bag” body plan,
stinging tentacles, no shell,
only one opening into/out
of their bodies (mouth =
anus)
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jellyfish
anemones, corals
hydra
chitons – (shell made of several plates)
gastropods – snails, limpets, slugs, sea
hares, nudibranchs (0-1 shell, may be
coiled, conical or tubular)
cephalopods – octopuses, squids,
nautiluses (internalized shell, or none)
bivalves – clams, oysters, mussels (2
shells)
ECHINODERMS (“spiny skin”)
– animals with bodies of 5 parts, hard
bumpy or spiny outer “skin” of calcium
carbonate, suction cup feet (watervascular system)
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seastars (aka “starfish” – not really fish)
brittle stars
sand dollars, sea biscuits
sea cucumbers