Minute Organisms - Information Facts on Shrimp

Minute Organisms

    Shrimp (information and facts for grade 4 students Maldives)

Minute Organism -Shrimp

·        Shrimp are marine crustacean invertebrates with 10 jointed legs on the thorax and body covered with a smooth exoskeleton which is often transparent and colourless.

·        The shrimp lives on the river beds and ocean floors around the world, filtering sand and particles in the water.

·        Shrimps are omnivorous animals and mainly feed on algae and other plant particles along with tiny fish and plankton in the water.

·        They may grow as long as 9 in. (23 cm), but most are smaller. Due to their small size shrimp are naturally prey to numerous predators both in the water and out.

·        Shrimp can lay up to a million eggs at once that only take a couple of weeks to hatch.

·        They swim forward by paddling their abdominal swimmerets and can move backward with swift strokes of their fan like tails.

·        The shrimp is very closely related to the prawn.