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1. What is a worm?
A worm is an elongated soft-bodied invertebrate (boneless) animal. The best-known is the earthworm, but there are hundreds of thousands of different species that live in a wide variety of habitats other than soil.
2. Where do worms live?
Most worm species live in the soil, but there are many parasitic worms that live inside the bodies of other animals.
3. What do worms eat?
4. What kingdom are worms found in?
5. Name the 3 major phyla (the next largest category of classification) that contain worms, and describe them.
6. What do “free living” and “parasitic” mean?
7. Which phyla, mentioned in question 5, are free living or parasitic?
8. Answer the following questions about earthworms.
a. Where do they live?
b. What do they eat?
c. How are they helpful to humans?
d. How short and how long do they get?
e. How many are there in one square meter of soil?
f. How many species are there?
g. What is the clitelum?
9. Find an earthworm outside and do the following:
a. Be able to distinguish the following parts: Head end, Tail end, and clitelum.
b. Observe, and describe how it moves.
d. Race your earthworms!
10. Answer the following questions about leeches.
a. Where do they live?
b. What do they eat?
c. How are they harmful to humans?
d. How are they helpful to humans?
11. Find a verse in the bible where worms are mentioned and demonstrate the story (through music, poem or drama)
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