Squid belong to the class of mollusks known as cephalopods, which includes octopuses, cuttlefish, and nautiluses. Most squid have eight arms and two long feeding tentacles, which feed into a central mouth armed with a sharp, parrot-like beak.quid belong to the class of mollusks known as cephalopods, which includes octopuses, cuttlefish, and nautiluses. Most squid have eight arms and two long feeding tentacles, which feed into a central mouth armed with a sharp, parrot-like beak.
Matter is a substance that has inertia and occupies physical space. According to modern physics, matter consists of various types of particles, each with mass and size. The most familiar examples of material particles are the electron, the proton and the neutron. Combinations of these particles form atom s.
Matter and elements. The term matter refers to anything that occupies space and has massâin other words, the âstuffâ that the universe is made of. All matter is made up of substances called elements, which have specific chemical and physical properties and cannot be broken down into other substances through ordinary chemical reactions. Gold, for instance, is an element, and so is carbon. There are 118 elements, but only 92 occur naturally.