Porifera:
Scientific Name: Hyactinellida Class: Hexactinellida Map:
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Description of habitat: They have no orgon system or tissues, can grow to be 6ft tall, and its skeleton is completely made up of silica. The silica is why they are called glass because it is a glass-like subsets. They can reproduce sexually and asexually. They feed off of tiny, floating organic particles and plankton that they filter from the water.
Facts: Glass Rope Sponges use to be very popular wedding gifts in Japan because of the looks and structure of the sponge. They are the oldest fossils in the multi-cellular animals and their bodies now make up the bottom of the sea floor in the ocean.
Endangered: They are not endangered
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Human impact on organism: The human impact on glass sponges is the pollution and making the water nasty. If we make the water they live in nasty they are not going to have food to eat and they will die.
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Sources:
1) www.bumblebee.org/invertebrates/Porifera.htm
2) www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hexactinellida-glass-sponges
3) www.deepcoral.wordpress.com/map/
4) www.wikiwand.com/en/Sponge
5) www.qrius.si.edu/browse/object/10009512#.WDNlSHeZO9Y
6) www.cambrianmammal.wordpress.com/tag/biomineralization/
7) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb6w-Q0GP74
1) www.bumblebee.org/invertebrates/Porifera.htm
2) www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hexactinellida-glass-sponges
3) www.deepcoral.wordpress.com/map/
4) www.wikiwand.com/en/Sponge
5) www.qrius.si.edu/browse/object/10009512#.WDNlSHeZO9Y
6) www.cambrianmammal.wordpress.com/tag/biomineralization/
7) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb6w-Q0GP74