Assertion: sponge | /r/CapableOf | draw water
Facets:
value: through pores
type: MANNER
value: continually
type: TEMPORAL
value: to gather food
type: PURPOSE
value: through specialized filter cells
type: MANNER
value: through their bodies
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: through the pores
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: They draw water in through the pores located throughout their body wall into a central cavity.
text: In general, a sponge can pump water equal to its body volume once every 5 seconds!
text: This helps the sponges push water through their bodies and collect nutrients.
text: To do this, the sponge draws in water through small pores called ostia, filters out particles in the choanocyte tissue, then moves the water through the spongocoel or central cavity before pumping the water out through the osculi.
text: Sponges are inanimate, but they have a water current system made of canals and chambers that allows them to pump in water, filter the food and eat quite a lot.
text: Sponges have osculum, which means they are the large pores that pushes the water out, absorb oxygen and food.
text: Some of these cells help the sponge to pull in the water and grab microscopic nutrients.
text: A sponge the size of a gallon milk container could pump enough water to fill a residential small size swimming pool within one day.
text: Sponges are extremely slow-moving or sessile filter-feeders that draw water through pores and specialized filter cells to gather food.
text: The sponges draw water carrying food particles into the spongocoel using the beating of flagella in the choanocytes.
text: Many sponges live in environments like coral reefs, where they continually pump water though their bodies to capture food particles.