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Sea urchins get their food at the bottom of the sea floor to eat dead fish.
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What adaptations do sea urchins need to survive?
they have spines that react to predators
Why are sea urchins important?
Sea urchins are very important to their habitat because they help maintain the amount of algae in the ocean.
What two ways spines are useful adaptation for sea urchins?
They protect the sea urchin from predators, help in movement and burrowing, and they help them with camouflage.
Do sea urchins live in Connecticut?
No. Sea urchins live in the sea.
How sea urchins are beneficial?
sea urchins are beneficial because they feed on dead organisms and help recycle materials. they control the growth of algae in coastal areas.
Do sea urchins live in warm water?
No, atually they live in massive groups, searching for kelp and other sea grasses to munch on. A large mass of urchins can clear massive kelp forests in a short amount of time. Most urchin groups live in shallows, but some species prefer deeper waters.
What do lobsters do to survive?
They eat dead fish. They also eat mussels, crabs, clams, and sea urchins.
What happened to the kelp forests?
In the 1800s, too many sea otters were hunted for their fur. Without sea otters, fewer sea urchins were eaten. Soon, too many sea urchins were being born. Smaller fish could not survive, because sea urchins ate their supplies of kelp. These fish were food for sea stars and crabs. The sea stars and crabs began to die out.
What does the process of fertilization in sea urchins produce?
More sea urchins.
Ho do sea urchins reproduce?
sea urchins can either reproduce sexually or asexually sea urchins can either reproduce sexually or asexually
What category do sea urchins fit into?
The classification of a Sea Urchin is Echinoidea
How many purple sea urchins are there?
there are excatly 3million purple sea urchins
