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  Sand Dollar
Children have been known to say that sand dollars are pressed sand that has been dried or even the money of mermaids washed-up from the deep.
Sand dollars are from the class of marine animals known as Echinoids, spiny skinned creatures.
Sand dollars live beyond mean low water on top of or just beneath the surface of sandy or muddy areas.
www.gma.org /Tidings/sanddollar.html   (465 words)

  
  Sand Dollar - MSN Encarta
The common sand dollar of the northeastern United States is found on sandy bottoms in comparatively shallow water.
Sand dollars obtain food by using their spines and tube feet to engulf sand from which they extract minute plants and animals.
Sand dollars belong to a phylum of marine animals known as echinoderms, which inhabit all the world’s oceans and can live in both the shallow and deep-ocean floor.
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 Sand Dollar
Sand dollars are from the class of marine animals known as Echinoids, spiny skinned creatures.
Sand dollars live beyond mean low water on top of or just beneath the surface of sandy or muddy areas.
On the ocean bottom, sand dollars are frequently found together.
octopus.gma.org /Tidings/sanddollar.html   (465 words)

  
 SAND DOLLARS types of sanddollars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Sand dollars are of the Phylum Echinodermata, class Echinoidea.
Sand dollars are usually found lying in a bed buried under a layer of sand.
If a sand dollar is found alive it will appear to have a layer of very fine hair on its body.
www.seashells.org /identcatagories/sanddollarstypes.htm   (118 words)

  
 sand dollar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The sand dollar has a rigid, flattened, disk-shaped test, or shell, made of firmly united plates lying just beneath the thin skin.
Sand dollars differ from the closely related heart urchins by their shorter spines and more flattened shape.
Sand dollars are abundant on the sandy bottom of deeper waters on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
www.bartleby.com /65/sa/sanddoll.html   (246 words)

  
 Sand Dollars
Sand dollars are used for many arts and crafts ideas as well as for collecting and weddings.
Many of the larger sand dollars we sell are used for wedding favors and place cards and a lot of the smaller sand dollars are used in wedding invitations.
Please note that all sand dollars are not identical because they are a natural product of the oceans and seas.
www.qualityshells.com /sand-dollars.html   (203 words)

  
 Sand Dollar Printout- Enchanted Learning Software
Sand dollars partly bury themselves under the sand, with an edge poking up out of the sand.
Sand Dollars are echinoderms (which means "spiny skin") and are related to sea urchins and sea stars.
Sand Dollars have tiny tube feet that are used as gills.
www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/invertebrates/echinoderm/Sanddollarprintout.shtml   (307 words)

  
 SAND DOLLAR CONDOS, Bonaire -- via U.S. Dive Travel.
The prime claim to fame for Sand Dollar Condominium Resort is that it's located on a wonderful tract of land where beaches are only 50 yards from the edge of a vast diving wall that stretches for miles along southern Bonaire's protected shoreline.
The nerve center of Sand Dollar Resort is the venerable Green Parrot restaurant, perched smack dab on the vessel dock, with sweeping views of the ocean and coastline.
For large groups or families, Sand Dollar Condos offer a wide range of accommodations, including condos with one, two or three bedrooms, plus studios, all of which are graced with fully equipped kitchens, A/C in the bedrooms, large living spaces, cable TV and ultra-clean user-friendly decor.
www.usdivetravel.com /R-BONAIRE-Sand_Dollar.html   (1842 words)

  
 Sand Dollar Home
It is said that Christ left the sand dollar on Earth as a symbol to help the evangelists teach the faith.
The five holes commemorate the five wounds of Christ, while at the center on one side blooms the Easter lily, and at the lily's heart, is the star of Bethlehem.
Subscribers to Sand Dollar are called "Doves" after the 5 white doves that are released to spread good will and peace when a sand dollar is broken.
www.ripplemaker.com /SandDollar/SandDollar.htm   (188 words)

  
 sand dollar jewelry
The five slits in the sand dollar shell represent the five wounds in the body of Christ.
Sand dollar is 1 3/8" across or 34mm.
Two tone sand dollar nearly one inch across or 23mm with the days of time lines etched in the shell and diamond cut rhodium finished star.
www.seawear.com /jewelry/sanddollars.html   (775 words)

  
 Catechist - The Sand Dollar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Contrary to popular belief—that it is a disk of pressed and dried sand—the sand dollar, like a shell, is the remnant of a sea creature that lived on the ocean floor.
On the front or top of the sand dollar (the side that is slightly arched), you see a miniature star in the very center.
Because sand dollars call attention to many of the most important moments in the story of Jesus’ birth, death, and resurrection, they make great symbolic ornaments for our classroom, home, or prayer space.
www.peterli.com /archive/cat/744.shtm   (1357 words)

  
 Sand Dollar Condo Resort, Bonaire: Accommodations
A: All Sand Dollar apartments front on the Caribbean Sea and have ocean views.
A: With 48 hours advanced notice, the Sand Penny is offered at a charge of $21.00 per child per day to keep your children ages 3-6 excited about being on Bonaire through craft workshops, pool trips, etc. while you are enjoying diving or other activities.
A: Sand Dollar Grocery, a convenience store, is located in the shopping center next to the bank.
divesanddollar.com /faq.html   (1376 words)

  
 Sand dollar wedding favors aroma therapy ornament.
Sand dollar wedding favors are handcrafted in our studio and make a perfect addition to any seaside or beach theme wedding party.
The sand dollar favors can be personalized at an additional cost.
The text is placed on the back or the favors can be left plain with the sand dollar design on one side.
www.theweddingdept.com /sand_dollar.htm   (214 words)

  
 The Legend of the Sand Dollar poem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Legend of the Sand Dollar also tells of the 5 dove’s that are inside and how when the sand dollar is broken open it spreads good will and peace.
View a photo of seldom seen sand dollar star from the inside of a sand dollar that is made up of the five doves before they came apart.
They are very hard to come across because they are very fragile and are usually found inside of a sand dollar that has been recently found on the beach and very carefully broken apart.
www.qualityshells.com /legend-of-the-sand-dollar-poem.html   (158 words)

  
 sand dollar — Infoplease.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Reduction of growth rate as the major process in the miniaturization of the sand dollar Sinaechinocyamus mai.
Calcium regulatory endomembranes of the prophase mitotic apparatus of sand dollar cells contain enzyme activities that produce leukotriene......
Identification of phospholipase A2 and phospholipase C activities in calcium regulatory endomembranes of sand dollar cells.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0843401.html   (370 words)

  
 How to Treat a Sand Dollar or Starfish - eHow.com
Sand dollars, starfish and sea cucumbers all come from the same group of animals, echinoderms, which means spiny skin.
Harvesting sand dollars - A sand dollar that is dark reddish-brown in color is alive and should not be harvested.
A dead sand dollar will be grayish or white in color.
www.ehow.com /how_16678_treat-sand-dollar.html   (338 words)

  
 Complexification | Gallery of Computation
The Sand Dollar is an iteratively constructed radial form using the Sand Stroke painting technique.
The radial form is constructed with a sweeping tree-like structure that oscillates as it moves clockwise around the origin.
Hundreds of thousands of Sand Dollars have been generated by the programmer over the course of many days.
www.complexification.net /gallery/machines/sandDollar   (167 words)

  
 Sand dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sand dollars are in the Echinoid (Echinoderms) class of marine animals.
A number of sand dollars on a seabed
Tubefeet or podia that line the food grooves, move food to the mouth opening which is in the center of the star shaped grooves on the underside of the animal called the oral surface.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sand_dollar   (338 words)

  
 Surfline | Sand Dollar Beach
Three miles up Highway 1 from Willow Creek is the beguiling Sand Dollar Beach, a glistening crescent of pure, white sand yawning into a horseshoe cove of shifty sandbars.
Sheltered from north and south wind, Sand Dollar endures severe crowding during blustery, sunny, small-swell weekend afternoons, when, no matter how wretched the surf may be, guys will paddle out in order to terminate their week-long (or month-long) dry spells.
Rather user-friendly, Sand Dollar is a delightful pocket for just about anybody, thanks to the gently undulating beach and forgiving whitewater rollers on the inside.
www.surfline.com /travel/surfmaps/surfspot.cfm?id=548   (343 words)

  
 Cozumel Scuba Diving and water sports: Octoberfest 2005, 'The Ultimate Dive Party' October 22-29th
In addition to 2-tank dives daily with Sand Dollar Sports on Cozumel's world class reefs, Island Photo-Video Center, will be conducting its annual Seashots Underwater Photo Competition, founded in 1992 by Cozumel's resident photo pros Holly and Armando Alentado.
'Since Sand Dollar Sports started Octoberfest the event has grown over 250% and really taken on a life of its own,' says Matias Garrido, Sales Manager for Sand Dollar Sports, who was also last year's co-host and part of the Masters of Mayhem.
Sand Dollar Sports, the on-site operator for the Reef Club Cozumel, is a PADI 5 star facility with over 18 years of dedication to providing first class service to hotel guests, cruise ship passengers, and the whole diving community here in Cozumel.
www.sanddollarsports.net /sd_oct_fest.php   (557 words)

  
 TopSearch10 - Search Results - sand dollar motel
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 Sand Dollar Cosmetics - about the designer Tamara Parisio - SandDollar Cosmetics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
By offering products infused with legend-inspiring ingredients believed to stimulate the entire being; through supporting the FREE resource LiveInPeace.info; and by providing thought provoking musings in a weekly eMagazine, Tamara intends to make a difference in the world.
Like a sand dollar that washes ashore, beauty has depth that shows at the surface.
the legend of the sand dollar speaks of this...
www.sanddollarcosmetics.com /AboutUS.htm   (325 words)

  
 Windchime: Sand Dollar
Enjoy the nice breeze with this Sand Dollar windchime, it's perfect for the porch, deck or back patio.
Designed by sculptors, each Sand Dollar wind chime is hand polished to bring out the detail of the animal artwork.
Approximate size on the Sand Dollar windchime is 24 inches.
www.animalden.com /10421.html   (97 words)

  
 National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA): Welcome
The association represents the crushed stone, sand and gravel-or aggregates-industries.
More than three billion tons of aggregates (or 2.91 billion metric tons) were produced in 2005 at a value of approximately $17.4 billion, contributing $38 billion to the GDP of the United States.
See how stone, sand and gravel have literally shaped our foundation and economy through the construction of roads, bridges, buildings and many other areas of our nation's infrastructure.
www.nssga.org   (896 words)

  
 Sand Dollar Title Group, Inc. is a full service title insurance agency dedicated to providing exceptional title ...
Sand Dollar Title Group, Inc. is a full service title insurance agency dedicated to providing exceptional title insurance and real estate closing services to Realtors, builders, lenders, and to the public.
Sand Dollar Title Group, Inc. is the Most Highly Recommended Title
Sand Dollar Title Group, Inc. Is not your average title firm.
www.sanddollartitle.com   (270 words)

  
 Sand Dollar Marketing :: Web Site Design
Sand Dollar Marketing specializes in graphic design, dynamic web sites, logo design and other intriguing and highly effective marketing materials.
We also offer inexpensive web hosting, printing services, as well as a number of various products including books, fine art, posters, and more.
We pray many blessings to you and your families in 2006.
www.sdmllc.com /sdm.asp   (267 words)

  
 California Liveaboard Scuba Diving - Dive Boat Sand Dollar
California Liveaboard Scuba Diving - Dive Boat Sand Dollar
The Sand Dollar has a known reputation for
choose the Sand Dollar for California boat diving.
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 Sand Dollar Digital Design - Online Tutor for Computer Users at All Levels - Web Development
Sand Dollar Digital Design - Online Tutor for Computer Users at All Levels - Web Development
Use the form below to send a message to a representative of our development team.
This web site is designed and maintained by the team at Sand Dollar Digital Design © May 2001
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