How snails make baby snails

In the picture

1. 1A snail with both sperm and eggs inside one body
2. 2Sperm passing in both directions between two snails
3. 3A snail digging and using a hollow nest in the soil
4. 4Fertilised eggs laid together in the nest
5. 5Tiny hatchlings that emerge from the eggs

Examples

• Garden snails meeting on a damp evening after rain
• A snail burying its eggs in soft soil under a stone

Quiz: How snails make baby snails (Age 13)

1. 1

   What does it mean that a garden snail is a hermaphrodite?

   • It has both male and female reproductive cells in one body
   • It has only sperm and must find a partner that has eggs
   • It has only eggs, and its partner supplies the sperm
2. 2

   When two garden snails mate, what happens with the sperm?

   • Neither gives sperm, because each snail fertilises its own eggs alone
   • Only one snail gives sperm, and only the other one lays eggs
   • Both give and receive sperm, so both can lay eggs
3. 3

   Where does a garden snail lay its fertilised eggs?

   • On the underside of a leaf
   • In a nest in the soil
   • In a pond or puddle

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