Vocabulary Practice 1/30-2/3

To shorten or reduce in length or size

• Setae

• Contract

• Protrude

• Cavity

Protects organisms from predators, like a shield, and allows them to live in dry places

• Pores

• Metamorphosis

• Mantle

• Scales/plates

Many rings or sections joined together

• Segmented

• Contract

• Scales/plates

• Cavity

TRUE or FALSE

Extend out means to mantle

• True

• False

What does mantle mean?

• Help anchor and control the worm when moving through soil

• Thin layer of tissue that covers internal organs

•  Extend out

A hollow area or hole

• Setae

• Cavity

• Segmented

Small opening in animals or plants

• Contract

• Cavity

• Protrude

• Pores

Transformation or change of structure or form after hatching or birth to an adult form

• Metamorphosis

• Setae

• Relax

• Protrude

To be loose or less firm

• Mantle

• Relax

• Segmented

• Contract

Extend out

• Setae

• Protrude

• Relax

• Contract