You will read about some very interesting ocean animals. All of them are invertebrates. However, you will notice that all of the capital letters and punctuation marks have been left out.
That makes it very hard to read!
Circle all the letters that should begin with a capital letter, and put in all the necessary punctuation marks.
ocean animals – sponges
sponges are the simplest form of multi-cellular animals multi-cellular means that the animal has many cells a sponge is a bottom-dwelling creature which attaches itself to something solid in a place where it can find enough food to grow the scientific name for sponges is “Porifera,” which means “pore-bearing” (You should have found 4 sentences.)
a sponge stays alive by pumping water through its body a sponge is covered with tiny pores which lead to the inside of its body these tiny pores lead to a system of canals and then lead out through much larger holes these canals move water through the sponge’s body there are collar cells that line the canals these collar cells force water through the sponge which brings oxygen and nutrients while removing carbon dioxide and waste the sponge can eat because of these collar cells the water brings with it bacteria and other organisms which the cells capture and filter out (There are 8 sentences.)