I am a hermit crab. I have eight legs and carry my home, which is a shell, on my back. While my shell is hard, my back is soft. If I feel scared, I will tuck into my shell for protection. I am a scavenger that cleans rock pools by eating dead plants and animals.

1. What am I
I can have over 40 arms, my mouth
is in the middle .
When I get my food I push out my
tummy.
I am really slow as slow as a snail
and I am a male

2. Facts about Star fish
Star fish don,t have back
Some bones or a brain or head
sea so they Sea stars eat pipis and
stars use eyespots on the mussels in a strange
use ends of their arms way
their
senses
to hunt Star fish can grow over 40 arms.
and
smell
Some star fish can camouflaged.
Seagulls and Star fish grab the mussel and pull the shell
otters eat star apart then push out their
fish tummy then digest the mussel
Alex

3. WHAT AM I.....
I have five or more arms.
If I lose an arm it will grow
back in one week. I have no
head or fins not even a tail.
I have no eyes but I can still
eat. I can still move
WHAT AM I

4. Sea stars can
Sea stars are
also hold on to
animals that
a rock. People
live in the
can get them.
sea, some
They have
I am a people call
suckers to
Starfish! them
cling to the
starfish .
rock
Sea stars don’t have
back bones / they
don’t even have
heads but they can
eat
Aorangi

5. WHAT AM I?
I have a big brain.
I do not have any bones.
I move by pumping
water through my body.
I feel like jelly.
I inject a poison into my
prey.
I can go through rocks.
I squirt black ink.
Bailey

6. If scared or
annoyed an
Octopus can
change very
quickly to look
like a rock.
Octopuses have very large brains
and have been known to open
containers that have food inside
them.

7. By Brooke
WHAT AM I.....
I have three different
colours. They are green
red and brown.
I live in the the water but
to grow I need sun.
I can grow up to 30
metres long.
Lots of
animals like to eat me.
I attach myself to whatever
I grow on.

8. Sea weed-kelp
There are lots of
different shapes
and sizes
Sea weed has gas
trapped in side its It needs sun
leaves to help it
float to the sun
and water
to grow
When sea weed grows They’re a little bit like a balloon
in deep water and make the leaves float back
the long leaves have to the surfice where there is
gas bubbles in them more sunshine .
sea weed is eaten
by lots of fish
Red brown and green sea Bright green sea weed,
weed grows farther down such as sea lettuce grow
the low tide . high on the shore

9. WHAT AM I..... Charlie
I can be the size of a grain of rice, but I also can be as big
as a room.
Green, blue, gray, purple, red, pink and white;
Yellow, orange, gold or spotted; a painter has had great
fun.
I am a clown; you are allowed to laugh.
I am a fierce soldier; fear upon you!
Daddy long leg, I look like...
But, I can also be as red and big as a table. I am short,
big, but most usually, I am a medium size and I live either
on land or in water.
Do you know what?
I can also climb trees.
Funny enough, I can snap coconuts from their branch
with my gigantic claws. Sometimes, you will see me
walking around waving my unique huge yellow or red
claw.
With my big long googly eyes on stems, I can also play
music because I am a fiddler!
I can burry myself and look like an alien, with only 2 big
eyes sticking out of the sand.
What am I?
A clown, a musician, a soldier or a great big spider??????

10. What am I?
I have a shell with a door, and I live on
the rock-pool floor. I’m very small with
one big foot, and I come out of my shell
to have a look. Humans try to catch me
it isn’t a lie, but I can tuck in my shell if
somebody tries. I have a black body that
is very small, and my colourful door acts
as a wall.
WHAT AM I?
Edward

11. It lives in rock-pools
Cat’s eyes have on all the
one big foot like rocks.
a Paua.
If something or A cat’s eye is a grazer
someone tries to A.k.a. a Herbivore so
that means it feeds on
catch a Cat’s eye Facts about a Cat’s eye
algae. A Cat’s eye is a
univalve and that
they will shoot A Cat’s eye has a
means it only has one
shell.
back into their colourful door and a
shell like a rocket small shell.
and close their
colourful door.
Their door looks like a The Maori name
Cat’s eye and that’s where for Cat’s eye is
it got it’s name from. Kanohi Pupu.

12. WHAT AM I
by finn
I am soft and small. I Live in a rock pool
I’m in the predator family . I’m a very
fast guy. When I’m tired I climb up a
tree. I come in all sorts of colours . I’m
camouflaged in all different ways. I need
to change my shell when I grow too big.
I shed my old shell. I have gills. I bring
eggs on my belly.

13. The purple The crusty
rock crab crab gets
lives in its name
the high from its
tide zone top part.
THE CRAB
A crab’s skeleton is on the outside.
When the hermit crab gets tired
it climbs up a tree.
There is a type of crab lives in the
rainforest

14. What am I ?
I’ve got four holes on my
back and some kind of ink
comes out of it.
When I’m small I live in the
low tide area but when I’m
big I go out more into the
sea.
People like to eat me.
I have a maori name.
Geordie

15. Paua are
also called There are
sea opal. three
New different
Zealands types of
I’m a paua !
best known paua.
paua is the The paua is an icon
black foot
in
New Zealand Paua are
paua commonly
Blackfoot paua found in
are the most shallow
The paua is a common of all waters along
delicacy to paua coastal
people shorlines

16. Helaina
What am I?
My tail is curvy,my body feels spiny.
My dad gives birth to me.
To hold on to things I use my tail.
My father looks after me.
I eat like a fish, no wonder I am In the fish
family.
What am I?

17. Sea
They suck up Horse! I can have many
crustaceans babies
with there I ,of
as possible.
snouts. course
can
I live in I can
grow
shallow water. look
to five
inches two
I look like a long. ways
miniature I can eat as many as at
dragon. A sea horse Is a
once.
3,500 food daily.
very weak
swimmer.
A sea horse eats shrimp.

18. Holly
What am I ?
I have five or more arms. I
can be all different colours.
I do not have a back bone,
and seagulls like to munch on
me.
I grow a new arm if one
breaks off.
I have no head or fins not
even a tail.

19. starfish The starfish
pushes out its
tummy when it
is eating and
A starfish’s arm
pushes the
is called a ray.
shellfish into
There are a about starfish do not its tummy.
1,800 different have back a back
kinds of starfish. bone Some starfish use
Starfish have tiny sense of smell to
The starfish
hunt or food.
little sucker feet. gets it’s
name
Starfish do not Starfish
because it’s
belong to the fish prefer to
family. shaped like a
hunt at night
star.
Starfish move very slowly.

20. WHAT AM I ? Jyselle
I eat algae and I live in the sea,
I’m as big as an adult’s palm
and I’m very colourful too.
I’m have a BIG sucker foot
under neath me,so I can hold
on tightly to the rocks.
I’m a herbivore and I belong
to the shell fish and crustation
family.
I have a maori name and
people like to eat me.

21. I have 4 to 5 I live on the
holes in my Paua sea bed. The family I
shell. belong to is
I have a black shell fish.
body.
The shell of the
I’m very tasty and paua has a low and
yummy. open spiral
I can’t live in structure and
the sun. characterised by
I move with
my big foot. several respiratory
The flesh of
holes in a row near
paua is widely
the shell’s outer
Paua is as big as considered to
edge.
an adult’s palm. be a desirable
food.

22. I sometimes live
in the sea and
love algae.
I’m a univalve
not a bivalve.
I love to eat
and sometimes
sleep.
I have one foot
under me.
I like to be in the
sea.
I’m oval shaped
like a hill.
I sometimes stay Kaid

23. I’m a
I’m a
univalve
limpet. I can cling
I have one big
. on to rocks
black foot that and move
moves me slow.
I live In A limpet’s
around. It’s a shell fish
rock bed is a
that looks like a
pools rock in
chiton but It’s
and in rock pools
not.
the Limpets
sea. Limpets hold or In the
sometimes live the water in sea.
with chiton’s their foot
when the tide
goes out.

24. what am I
I have two nippers.
I carry my house on my back. I live in
a rook pool, and have a very big
snack. I walk very slowly and I have
no toes. I have two pointy eyes I
have a soft shell not a hard one.
Each time I grow too big for a shell I
move into a larger shell. When
people come to hurt me I tuck away
in my shell.
Now do
you know what I am?
Kurt

25. hermit crab.
When a hermit crab sees
The hermit crab does someone coming to hurt
not have a hard shell it, the hermit crab tucks
it has a soft shell away in its shell
Hermit crabs eat
The hermit crab
plankton not
walks sideways
algae.
A hermit crab’s
A hermit crab
shell must fit
is a crustacean.
exactly.
Some hermit
crabs leave
the sea each
day to crawl
up tress to
rest.

26. WHAT AM I....
I walk really slow on
shimmering sea beds.I
have eight legs and a very
hard shell.I like to eat pipi
and mussels.
I live under rocks.
I am part of the crustacean
family.
what am I.
BY Lauryn.

27. Do you know that there One of them are
are as big as
4400 species of crab our classroom.
around the world.
Fact about crabs
some crabs leave by lauryn.
the
sea each day to go Crab are scavengers
to they eat mussels and
the bushes. pipis.

28. When I am young
I am as soft as moss
As I grow older
I get lumpy and bumpy
Humans and large fish
are scary to me
The place to be is
in my father’s pouch
because it is so cosy
and no one there is nosy.
I am also spiky a bit
like a puffer fish.
Can you guess what I am?
Nicole

29. The father
Sea horses! Sea horses have
is the one that
gets pregnant spikes,lots of
and looks after them.
the babies.
the one A sea horses life
that gets is 1-5 yrs.
Sea horses can
pregnant
change colour.
and looks At first sea horses
after the are soft,but as they
A herd is a team of
babies. grow older they
sea- get harder and harder.
horses.
There are millions of
babies born at a
time.

30. I’m slimy and delicate
no doubt about that.
I’m not too
skinny and not too fat.
I’m a plant, all of you
think but really I can
sink,sink,sink.
I don’t have a shell
it would be much too
tight
It seems like I’m see
through
and glow like a light.
I hunt but do not move,
For my food comes to
me. Olivia

31. I am a meat eater At any time I can let
also known as a out little anenomes
carnivore. from my mouth that
look identical to me.
I can split in Sea Anenome
half to make a I can swim but
new anenome My mouth is in I’m usually
the centre of my grounded
body
I come in a I can have a
wide range of range of ten
sizes and tentacles to
colour hundereds.

32. what am I
by piper
I suck food
because I don;t
have teeth.
My husband has
the babies but I don;t.
I have fins
that have spikes.
My tail is swirly and
curly but not all over
my body.

33. sea horses are
sea horses can
really
camouflage on the
small it is
sea weed
a size of a fish
sea horse
FACTS
Sea horses are unusual because its
the male that gets pregnant and
carries the hundred of eggs in its stomach
until they are all ready to hatch.

34. What am I?
I have eight legs. I
have
a shell but my back is
soft.
My shell protects me
from other animals.
If one of my nippers
fall off i will grow a
new one.
I am a scavenger
and I clean up rock
pools by eating dead
plant and animals.
Sarah

35. A hermit crab
When a has a soft back.
hermit crab
feels scared
Hermit crabs
they tuck
I am a use their powerful
into their
hermit crab. claws to hold on
shell.
to the rocks.
A hermit crab can use it’s
nipper to nip us.

36. What am I?
I grow up to 40 legs.
I have a mouth in the
middle of me.
I have lots of tubed
feet and eat at night.
I have 5 arms.
Normally I am a
predator. I eat
mussels and little
fish.
Sean

37. The cushion
I am a Star fish star can be very
small.
They grow up
to 40 The cushion star holds
legs. water in its self.
They have a mouth They have microscopic
in the middle eyes on the end
of them. of their arms.
They eat little creatures

38. What am I?
I stick to rocks, my
colour can be greeny.
One of my type is called
snakeskin. I am not
big I am small,
I am like a limpet but
I’m not.
I like to eat algae.
I am a herbivore !
I have no eyes.
What am I?

39. cling Chitons have no
Chiton eyes,
tightly
s! they have a
to the rocks
using relatively good
suction and fossil
are veryhas record stretching
The chiton
difficult to back
eight
remove! 400 million years.
Chitons shelter
movable plates They wriggle
fastened across the rocks like on or
together by under rocks or in
worms. crevices in tidal
muscles and
surrounding pools.
By Sinead!
leathery
scales!

40. What am I?
I can grow up to
forty arms. I have
lots of little feet.
I can camouflage
into sand to protect
myself
from predators.
I can come in all
different colours
like red,orange and
sometimes
blue. I like to live
on pipis and
mussels.
What am I? Todd

41. Starfish can Starfish belong
grow up to to the
forty arms. echinoderms
Starfish family.
have
microscopic Starfish
eyes on the Starfish have spiky
end of their bodies.
arms. Starfish
If Starfish bring out their
Starfish eat
lose an stomachs to
pipis and
arm they digest
mussels.
grow a food.
new one.

42. Will j
What am I?
I have five arms. If
one of my arms
break it will
grow back in
a week. I cling
to rocks very
tightly. One of
my favourite
foods are filter
feeders. I come
in many shapes
and sizes.

43. Starfish’ starfish!!
s
favourite Starfish have five
foods or more
are filter arms.
Facts about the star-fish!!
feeders.
There are tiny The starfish’s mouth
little is
sucker’s feet underneath in the
that Some starfish have
middle of the
spikes on their arms most popular
There it move.
help are many The
starfish.
types types
starfish. Starfish are of starfish are
found all over brittle
the rocky star,cushion star

44. What am I?
I crawl across the seabed
and I eat mussel
I use my arms to eat
mussel. And I'd push
myself inside out to eat
the victim
what am I ?
Will S