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These tube feet have suction disks that enable the animals to crawl or attach themselves to objects. Think of a starfish "clinging" to the walls of the inside of a fish tank

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How do the tube feet of an echinoderm help the animals?

the tube feet of an echinoderm helps the animal, by making it move!. hope this helped.


Does an echinoderm have tube feet?

Yes echinoderms have that internal hydrological system that lets them run their tube feet.


What do echinoderms use for movement?

Echinoderms, such as seastars and sea urchins, use their tube feet to move. Tube feet have suction discs which allows the echinoderm to crawl or stick to various surfaces.


What part of an echinoderm is the tube feet?

It helps it move from place to place! :)


What is an ambulacrum?

An ambulacrum is a row of pores of an echinoderm for the protrusion of appendages such as tube feet.


How does an echinoderm use its tubes feet?

for attachment


How does the echinoderm use its feet?

To move around


What is the organ for breathing of echinoderms?

On the ventral side of an echinoderm (say, a sea star, for example) there are hundreds of tiny feet arranged into rows on each appendage. These are called tube feet. By varying the internal water pressure, the echinoderm can extend and contract its tube feet for locomotion, food collection, and respiration


What is an ambulacral?

An ambulacral is another word for an ambulacrum, a row of pores of an echinoderm for the protrusion of appendages such as tube feet.


A vertebrates animals that has tube feet spines and arms that extend out from the body?

No, vertebrates are animals that have spinal columns. You are describing an echinoderm, which is an invertebrate.


Gas exchange in an echinoderm takes place through?

Some Echinoderm starfish use the bumps and spines on their surface for respiration, and others use special thin areas of epidermis on the skin, called dermal gills or papulae, to exchange gases. Although, most Echinoderm sea stars generally lack proper respiratory systems and many only have rudimentary circulatory systems. The water vascular system is also really important in gas exchange.


Can you use the word echinoderm in a sentence?

A starfish is an echinoderm.