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Earthworms

            
             Earthworms are part of the phylum: Annelida. There are other things also included in this phylum such as bristle worms and leaches. They are bilateral, which means that if you cut them down the middle long ways they would be the same on both sides. Earthworms live in most any habitats except the tundra and the desert. They live in water because they dehydrate easy. They have a layer of mucus all over their body and if they didn't live around water their layer of mucus would dry up.
             Earthworms take in oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere through their skin. Then blood cells carry the oxygen and carbon dioxide from cells to vessels. They have a closed circulating system. Earthworms.
            


Essays Related to Earthworms

1. The Adaptations of earthworms to their environment

In this essay about the adaptations of the earthworm I will discuss very briefly general adaptations that earthworms have for survival. By the shape of the earthworms body being cylindrical it is a very good shape for digging tunnels into the ground , the pointed chaetae also help by providing a source of anchorage and also a levering action to help the earthworm move along. The secretions of mucous that the earthworm exhibits help to bond the various sand and soil particles together thereby making them hard and this prevents a tunnel that the earthworm has dug from collapsing on the ear...

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2. Earth Worms

Habitat Of An Earthworm It may surprise you to know that earthworms are not originally from this country. ... The largest earthworms live in South Africa and Australia There are over 3,000 kinds of worms.2,700 different kinds of earthworms to be exact. ... The earthworm's habitat is the earth. ... In color, earthworms can be many different colors. ... The length of an earthworm can vary. ...

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3. Earth worms

They live under ground where we cannot see them, but if you make this wormery, you can observe the way earthworms crawl. ... The purpose of this experiment is to determine how long it takes for earthworms to make their tunnels. I believe that the earthworms will have their tunnels every were in less than four hours. ... See if you can find two or three earthworms. It is easiest to find earthworms in damp, warm soil, so you might want to look for them after a hard rain. ...

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4. Earth worms

They live under ground where we cannot see them, but if you make this wormery, you can observe the way earthworms crawl. ... The purpose of this experiment is to determine how long it takes for earthworms to make their tunnels. I believe that the earthworms will have their tunnels every were in less than four hours. ... See if you can find two or three earthworms. It is easiest to find earthworms in damp, warm soil, so you might want to look for them after a hard rain. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

5. Dugesia

An earthworm's body has more than 100 segments(Feldkamp, page 734). ... Earthworms feed by ingesting the soil that they burrow (Feldkamp, page 734). ... An earthworm has a closed circulatory system transport oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, and wastes through the body (Feldkamp, page 735). ... Earthworms have no specialized respiratory organs (Feldkamp, page 735). ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

6. Leeches used for Modern Medicine

Leeches have been used on thousands of patients that have had a finger or toe cut off and have had it reattached. The use of leeches has helped to prevent blood clotting so the blood vessels have a chance to regrow. In the following paragraphs I will try to persuade you that the use of lee...

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7. "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston

Literary Review of "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston "Sweat" is an interesting short story written by a black author, Zora Neale Hurston, who presents the reader with a tale about life as an abused wife. Delia, the dynamic character in this story, works to support her husband, Sykes, by doing laundry...

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8. Is the World a Rotten Apple?

Two brown earthworms squirmed around in an apple they had been inside of for their entire almost-month-long existence. The normally sparkling red apple had turned into a brown pile of mush that could be likened to a pile of cow manure outwardly, besides its few red pieces of skin that appeared in bi...

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9. Bioluminescence

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