The Colorful Creature
Charlotte Scholze
Introduction
Do you know what animal looks like a flower but sways in the ocean? You guessed it, the Sea Anemone! The Sea Anemone has more than 1,000 species! That’s a lot of anemones with powerful string like stingers in their tentacles that can sting and paralyze a fish in an instant. Some very cool things about this small but powerful animal are what they eat, how they reproduce, and especially how they look.
Diet
Did you know that a Sea Anemone can eat something as big as a medium size bird? Well, it can but I don’t think it really wants to eat a bird every day. This marvelous creature eats fish, mussels, zooplankton(like copepods, other mall cranes, and tiny maine Larvae), shrimp, and worms. Despite this they still can eat something as large as a bird or lobster. Some species eat only microorganisms. Also, Sea Anemones are eaten by sea slugs, certain starfish, eels, flounders, and codfish. The colorful creature gets its food by having an opening at the top of it’s body. (The “mouth”) The cavity is surrounded by several tentacles and those general tentacles act like arms for the Sea Anemone. In those “arms” there are thousands of thread like tubes and those tubes contain powerful cells that can paralyze the prey of the Sea Anemone. When its food is dragged into the Sea Anemone's mouth to eat. That is how this colorful carnivore gets its food. I once saw a Sea Anemone on the back of a crab, it was eating a fish at the same time. There were so many facts about what the Sea Anemones eats and how it eats its food.
Reprduetion
Did you know that there are two sexes of a Sea Anemone? There is a male and a female, they can reproduce sexuall and asexually. There are many steps of reproduction for this marvelous creature. First, the sexual way is when a male Sea Anemone releases sperm through the cavity on the top of the body and the females releases eggs into the water, this is where the fertilization occurs. The asexual way is when an identical animal sprouts out of the anemones side, when this happens the plate at the bottom of this animal (The plate keeps the Sea Anemone on the ground) splits into two pieces. The Sea Anemone can have a lot of offspring. When they mate they produce larva in the water and when the larvae grow into a Sea Anemone, it attaches itself to rocks or coral. Even than in the sexual reproduction process they throw their eggs and sperm into the water, the more sperm they throw into the water, the easier the females can “get” them. Then, the sperm goes into the gastrovascular cavity where the eggs become fertile. The Sea Anemones can live for a great amount of time.
Appearance
Fairy Bread
My recipe is fairy bead. I chose it because it look very good and yummy.
~Fairy bread is cut white bread spread with margarine or butter (sweet butter) and covered with sprinkles or hundreds and thousands which stick to the spread bread. It is typically cut into four triangles.
~It is commonly served at children's parties in Australia and New Zealand. The origin of fairy bread is unknown, but it may come from the poem 'Fairy Bread' in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, published in 1885.
Ingredients:
8-10 slices white bread,rimmed of crust
butter or margarine
candy sprinkles (hundreds and thousands)
Directions:
1.Spread slices of bread with butter or margarine.
2.Sprinkle with candy sprinkles.
3.Cut into triangles.
4.Arrange on serving plate.