Snails By Jasmine Chow

Snails can be found in gardens, in ponds and even in the sea. They belong to a group of animals with a soft body called mollusks which are related to oyster, clams, and other shellfish. Characteristically they have soft, unregimented bodies. Normally, their soft bodies are protected by a hard shell. The snail are also called  "a belly footed animal". The body of the snail is long, moist and slimy. It has a shell to protect its soft body. When the snail is disturbed, it simply withdraws or pulls itself back into its shell. The snail also retreats into its shell and seals the entrance in dry weather to protect its body from drying up. A snail is most active at night and on cloudy days. It does not like the sunshine very much. During very cold weather or winter, it hibernates in the ground.

There are three kinds of snails, there are land snails, fresh water and salt water.

LAND SNAILS

Land snails are large, some are colorful like orange and brown….the land snails have lungs too. They use their muscular body to move they body pours out slime so they can move, ants and beetles are their enemies but they were caught in the sticky slime. During the dry or the winter they use their slime to close its doors tightly and wait until the dry spell ends.

FRESH WATER SNAILS

These snails live in Lakes Rivers and hot spring. Some has lungs so they must come to the surface of the
Water to breathe oxygen. Some are like fish; they have gills so they breathe oxygen in the water.

SEA WATER SNAILS

Many of these snails live in the sea beds and by the sea shore. Most of them have gill. They  use their gill to breathe.     

SNAIL”S  FOOD

Snails eat many kinds of foods. Land snails eat rotting plants. Sea snails eat sea weeds, and some eat sea animals and dead animals too. Some snails are a pest. Certain fresh water carries worms and it kills thousands of people each year. Some snails destroy plants of farmers we got to be careful when you eat snail.

   --- By Jasmine Chow.