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This is a Banded Tube-Dwelling Anemone
Plant or animal? Do you know the best way to tell the difference between a plant and an animal? You can't always tell just by looking. Some plants look like animals and some animals look like plants. At the bottom of the sea, there is a living thing that looks like it is growing out of the sand. But if a fish swims by and touches the "flower's" petals the fish gets caugh. A little mouth opens up in the middle of the flower and the fish gets pulled into it. Do plants have mouths? Can plants eat things? No. No plants in the world has a mouth and most plants get their food by making it from sunshine, air, and water. But animals can not make their food. They most eat. Now the flower in the sea moves. It slides around on the sand. Can a plant move? No, once a plant sprouts up from its seed it stays in one spot unless it is moved by a man, an animal, or the wind. But most animals can move by themselves. So this living thing at the bottom of the sea is not a plant, because it moves and eats. It is an animal called a sea anemone. If a living thing moves and eats, it is an animal but if it makes its food from sunshine, air, and water.
