Gastropod facts

Gastropods are snails and slugs, so Gastropods have one or no shell. Slugs and snails have a broad foot on the bottom thats how they get there name. Gastropods means broad foot. Gastropods eat anything from leaves to meat. Gastropods can live almost anywhere they live in the water as long as on land and on treetops. Gastropods have a trapdoor on there foot and when the weather is dry they close there trapdoor and stay in there. Then they wait till the weather is moist then they open there trapdoor. Snails can live a long time while in there shells without food or water. One day scientists brought a snail that was assumed to be dead, but when they put the snails in water one of them crawled away.