Let look inside the Earthworm
cutting and observing the organs inside earthworm
objectives
1) Food system
predatory and prey
2) Body system
Digestive system specifically
3) intersting facts
4) Back ground info
Where it lives
The family/ scientific name
background info
•Genus: Lumbricus
•Scientific name: Lumbricus terrestris
•Phylum: Annelida
•Predators, Reptiles, Amphibians and bird
habitat
Earthworms live in soil in meadows, woods, stream banks, and lawns. They burrow up to six feet deep.
digestive system
- simple system -first the food inter the mouth-pharynx(take in food)_
- esophagus( carries it to the crop),_
- crop (stores the food), _
- gizzard (grinds the food),_
and intestine (digests and absorbs the food) anus (lets out the waste
cross unit/ecology/evolution/human
- improve soil structure
- modify soil
- recycle organic material
- human benefits
- Increasing pastoral productivity
- Facilitating and accelerating mine restoration
Earthworms interesting facts- Earthworms Breath through Skin