Adaptations

Giant Tube Worm Physical Adaptations has a large red plume that provides nutrients to the bacteria that live inside the worm Morphological Adaptations has a specialized organ used for exchanging compounds such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulphide with the seawater has a mutual relationship with the bacteria that lives inside it. Has no mouth or digestive tract so it feeds off of the bacteria. bacteria converts the chemicals from the hydrothermal vents into organic molecules that provide food for the worm Behavioral Adaptations can sense movement and vibrations and will retreat into their protective tubes when threatened release their eggs into the water to be fertilized