What’s inside a snail’s shell?

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Snail:
- Snails belong to the kingdom Animalia with phylum Mollusca.
- They come under the category of class gastropoda.
- Gastropods can include both kind of animals, with shell or without shell.
- The snail without shell is known as slug instead of snail.
- A snails body has major five different major body parts named as the head, the neck, the visceral hump, the tail and the foot.
- The slug also has the similar body parts just like snail with the exception of just one main body part that is the visceral hump or the shell.
What’s inside a snails shell?
- The slug does not have any shell like snail.
- Its internal structures are protected by the mantle.
- Mantle is known to cover the fourth or third part of the slug and prevent any danger to its internal organs.
- Both the snail and slug consist of a pair of tentacles, both having eyes on their tip.
- For snail, tentacles are the organs situated outside the shell.
- Eyes on the tentacles are useful for the observation of surrounding place.
- Shells are the hard substance through which snail gets its protection against any predator.
- Calcium Carbonate is the main substance used for the making of snails shell.
- Snails are known to move forward and backward through their foot which are a muscular body part.
Fun Facts:
- Snail and shellfish belong to the same category.
- The mucous secreted by the snail is found to be positive thing for our skin by providing us with some healing properties.
- According to the reports, the smallest land animal can fit inside the eye of the needle.
Related Questions:
- Explain the uses of snail’s shell.
- How is snail useful to us?
- Explain some species of different type of snail.
True or False:
- Snail belong to the kingdom plantae.
- Snail belong to the kingdom Animalia.
- Snail have no shells on them.
- Slugs have shells on them.
- Snail and slugs are same with no difference in between them.
Objective Quiz:
- Snails belong to the _______.
- Phylum Mollusca.
- Phylum Mammalia.
- Phylum Insecta.
- None of the above.
- The snail without shell is known as ______.
- A slug.
- A sludge.
- A snug.
- None of the above.
- Snail has ______ of tentacles.
- A pair
- Three pair.
- Two pair.
- None of the above.
- Shell is used for the _________.
- Protection.
- Walking.
- Both 1) and 2).
- None of the above.
- The main substance for the shell is _______.
- Calcium carbonate.
- Calcium sulphate.
- Calcium chloride.
- Calcium nitrate.
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