Question

The movement of a snail on the ground is a ________ motion.

Answer 1

Answer:

Land snails move by gliding along on their muscular foot, which is lubricated with mucus and covered with epithelial cilia. This motion is powered by succeeding waves of muscular contractions that move down the ventral of the foot. thank you,

Answer 2

The movement of a snail on the ground is a crawling motion.

• Snail is a Gastropoda or belongs to the phylum Mollusca.
• The body of a snail is covered with calcium carbonate and its movement is both muscular and crawling.
• They drag their body which is not the part of locomotion.
• The foot of the snail is exceeding from their shell which provides foot locomotion from the ventral side which occurs by contraction of foot muscles.