Invertebrates Adapted for FAST flowing Water

What are any adaptations besides having means of gripping rocks etc, so as to not be washed away?

I can't think of any more?

Thanks in advance!

Reply 1

Golden Maverick

snmichaels

What are any adaptations besides having means of gripping rocks etc, so as to not be washed away?

I can't think of any more?

Thanks in advance!

Able to feed in the fast flowing water, as barnacles with their featherlike projections.
Perhaps how they reproduce - release sperm and eggs, as corals do.
erm, not much else

Reply 2

snmichaels

I just checked out the scheme (I forgot I had it :biggrin:

), and it says:

Reference to {claws / hooks} (on legs);
To hold onto stones / eq;

Streamlined / flattened shape / aerodynamic / hydrodynamic;
Less resistance to flowing water / hides under stones;

It's only a 2 mark question so I thought they wanted 2 adaptations but I think 1 with a reason would've been enough.

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