Transcript Meet the Rocky Seashore

Meet the
I’m a Giant Green Sea
Anemone.
I look like a green flower.
I live attached to a rock.
I eat at high tides.
I close up in the hot
sunlight.
I can live for 30 years.
Do you see my mouth?
I have lots of tentacles.
I have tentacles all around my mouth.
My tentacles looks like fingers.
I eat small fish, crabs, and shrimp.
I grab and sting my food with my tentacles.
I use my tentacles to put food in my mouth, that opens
into my stomach.
My name is Camouflaged Fish.
I change colors to match with the rocks and
sand.
I can bury and sit still, so my enemies can’t see
me.
I use my mouth to snap up food.
Can you find me in the pictures?
My name is Acorn Barnacle.
I look like a little volcano
and I have a hard shell.
I am related to the crab.
I can stick to a rock, shell,
a whale or a turtle.
At low tides, you can see
what I look like. I close
up and wait for the tides
to rise.
I’m hungry.
I love the high tides. I open up my shell
and my long, feather legs come out. They catch
plankton floating in the water. My legs kick the
food down into my mouth. My mouth is at the
bottom of my shell.
My name is Purple Shore Crab.
I have eight legs and two pinchers.
I use my pinchers to catch food and to protect me.
I can stay out of the water, but I have to keep my gills
wet to breathe.
In high tides, I look for food.
I try to hide from the gulls at low tides.
I can run fast.
My name is Hermit Crab.
I have four legs, two claws, and antennas.
I wear a snail shell. When it gets too small, I move into
a bigger shell.
I fight with my friends.
I eat dead things, I can find at high tide.
I hide in cracks at low tides.
My name is Lined Chiton.
I look like a football.
My shell is made of eight
parts.
I can roll up into a ball.
I walk very slow in the high
tides.
I use my foot to attach to
the rocks.
My name is California Mussels.
I have two blue shells.
I look like a clam.
I use my cables to anchor to
the rocks.
Sea Stars love to eat me.
I live with a bunch of
mussels, we call it Mussel
Bed.
My name is Bat Star.
I look like a bat with my web rays.
I can have four to nine rays.
I have about 20 worms, that live by my mouth.
My favorite foods are sea stars, worms, and algae.
I hold on tight from the waves washing me off the
rocks.
My name is Ochre Sea Star.
I have five arms and
hundreds of tiny tube
feet.
I can be orange, purple,
red, or brown.
I can grow my arms back,
if it breaks off.
My mouth is in my middle.
I love water.
I don’t like the sun,
because it dries me out.
I find a rock to grab onto.
It’s Lunch Time!
At high tide, I
visit the
Mussel Bed.
My favorite
food is
mussels.
I push my
stomach out
through my
My name is Western Gull.
I am a bird.
I like to go to the
rocky seashore.
I fly, walk or take naps
on the beach at high
tides.
My favorite time at
the rocky seashore is
low tides.
I find many things to
eat. I like sea stars,
mussels, clams, and
My name is Sea Palm.
I look like a palm tree.
I only grow on rocks.
I bounce back after every
wave.
I like strong waves.
Be safe, I can get tangled
around you!
My name is Red Octopus.
I live in a hole or a cave.
I like to eat hermit crabs, other small crabs, and small
fish.
I have a poison bite and eight long tentacles.
I use camouflage to protect me.
I pick up things and take it to my cave in high tides.
I hide in a water hole at low tides.
Goodbye
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