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All About Seashell

All About Seashell. By Emma O’cone 2MB. Facts About Seashells . A seashell is the exoskeleton of a Mollusk A Mollusk is a soft bodied animal with an exoskeleton (shell) Protection is the primary purpose of a shell. Did You Know…?.

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All About Seashell

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  1. All About Seashell By Emma O’cone 2MB

  2. Facts About Seashells • A seashell is the exoskeleton of a Mollusk • A Mollusk is a soft bodied animal with an exoskeleton (shell) • Protection is the primarypurpose of a shell.

  3. Did You Know…? • The reason it sounds like the ocean when you hold a seashell to your ear is that the sound waves that get inside are jumbled up by all kinds of sounds • The color and pattern of a shell depends on what the mollusk eats.

  4. Did You Know….? • That Native Americans used beads made of clam shells as money that they called wampum? • that collecting seashells at the beach is called shelling? • That hermit crabs do not have a shell but use empty shells they find to live in and when they outgrow one shell they move out into another one.

  5. Do You Eat Mollusks? • Clams • Oysters • Scallops[Snails • Mussels • MANY PEOPLE DO!

  6. Have You Ever Found…

  7. Or… • If you did then you had a great day! • The End

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