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A seashell placed next to the ear will seem to sound like the ocean it came from due to the shell acting as a resonating chamber. The echo is from the ambient noise outside the shell. This phenomenon can also be done with an empty cup.
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What is the name of a predatory sea shell with a spiral shape?
Syrinx Aruanus (Australian Trumpet)
What elements are in sea shells?
Calcium, Carbon, and Oxygen in the form of CaCO3 are the dominate ones. A full list would be over a dozen times as long and varies from shell to shell. The origin of a shell can be identified by the exact elemental composition.
In what sea creature is a pearl found?
Natural pearls come in many shapes, however perfectly round ones are very rare. They are made up of calcium carbonate and conchiolin and are formed when a microscopic intruder or parasite enters a mollusk and settles inside the shell. The mollusk is irritated by the intruder and secrets the conchiolin/calcium carbonate repeatedly until a pearl is formed. Cultured pearls are formed when a tiny of mantle tissue from a donar shell is transplanted into a recipient shell, which causes a pearl sac to form. Such pearls can be produced using freshwater or seawater shells. They also go by the following names: Akoya, white or golden South sea, and black Tahitian.
What can substitute teeth in a science project?
Chalk is calcium carbonate but teeth is calcium phosphate crystalline. I believe, sea shell is a better substitute for teeth.
Why were scientists surprised to find life around hydrothermal vents?
hot springs on the sea floor that pump out superheated water from inside earth.
What lives inside a sea shell?
what lives in the sea
How can you tell how old sea turtles are?
by the inside in their shell or oust side by the inside in their shell or oust side
Why do you hear the sound of the ocean in a seashell?
There are many theories as to why this happens. The best explanation for this phenomenon is that there is always just... noise... around you at any time. When you hold the seashell over your ear, you are physically capturing the noise which resonates inside the shell. That is why you may here the wave-like sounds differently with shells of different size and shape. Maybe this will spoil it, but... you really don't need a seashell to create this effect. the seashell to hear the noise. Use an empty cup or cup your own hand over your ear. You can even vary it by varying the distance of the cup or hand from your ear.
When you put a shell to your ear how comes you can here the sea?
It is not the sound of the sea that you can hear when you put your ear to a shell, it is echoes of the sound of blood circulating around your head and through your ears.
Which is the sea creature with ten arms wide flat shell inside its body?
Squid or cuttlefish.
Is a sand dollar a nocturnal?
no and yes because you can make it make noise and no because nothing can live in it and there are no holes to put your ear up to it. Oh did you know that if you put a sea shell up to your ear you hear a ocean sound it is relly the blood rushing throught your ear
What does a conch look like?
Its a closed, rounded shell, with an opening that if you hold to your ear, myth says you can hear the sea! :o)
What is the most popular sea shell?
Bash sea shell
What sounds do sea shell make?
What is the sound in a sea shell
What does conch look like?
Its a closed, rounded shell, with an opening that if you hold to your ear, myth says you can hear the sea! :o)
How are sea stars able to get clams open?
Clams open when cooked because of the pressure that builds inside of them. When temperatures increase the molecules and atoms inside of the shell move fast enough to pop the shell open.
Is a leatherback sea turtles body segmented?
No. The leatherback sea turtle does not have a segmented body. The spine runs along the inside of the shell. The shell is nothing more than a large sandwich of keratin which protects the soft inner body.
