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What is a butterfly or moth called when it is in its resting stage?
pupa
How many pairs of jointed legs do insects have?
3
What are the tubelike structures that a spider applies pressure to whenever silk is needed?
spinnerets
What percentage of arthropods belong to the insect class?
90%
What is the process of arranging animals or other things into groups according to their similarities called?
classification
What kind of spider blankets a small section of ground with a flat maze of silk to form a sheet web?
platform spider
What do we call scientists who study insects?
entomologists
What are the sensitive hairs that grow all over a spider’s body?
setae
What do we call an animal that is active at night?
nocturnal
What is the process of an insect shedding its external skeleton called?
molting
What is the transformation in appearance an insect goes through?
metamorphosis
Many young spiders sail through the air on silk strands that carry them from their place of birth to new homes. What is this called?
ballooning
What is the tough material that makes up an insect’s external skeleton?
chitin
What are invertebrates that have external skeletons, jointed appendages and segmented bodies?
arthropods
Which arachnid has only one body section and 8 long, thin legs?
harvestman or daddy long legs
Which parasite causes mange and scabies?
mites
Which poisonous spider has a violin-shaped mark on its abdomen?
brown recluse
Which spider uses its silk to make a tiny net small enough to hold between its legs?
ogre-faced spider
What kind of spider is the largest in the world?
tarantula
Which spider lives its entire life underwater?
water spider
Which kind of spider digs a hole, lines it with silk, and makes a trap door to catch its prey?
trap-door spider
What is the organ that has several thin sheets of tissue filled with blood vessels that are stacked like pages in a book that spiders use to breathe?
book lungs
What two body regions do spiders have?
abdomen and cephalothorax
How many legs does a spider have?
8
Which two divisions of the classification system did Linnaeus use to give each plant or animal its scientific name?
genus and species
What are the 3 stages of incomplete metamorphosis?
egg, nymph, adult
What does an insect’s antennae help them do?
feel, hear, taste
What are the 3 body regions of an insect?
head, thorax, abdomen
What is the largest kind of tarantula?
Goliath birdeater
What is the organism on which a parasite lives called?
host
Name the 7 layers of the classification system, in order.
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
Insects are the only arthropods that have what?
wings
Which order of insects has straight, papery wings that fold in a straight line along their bodies?
Orthoptera
What are the most numerous of all insects?
Beetles
What are true bugs known for?
the way they suck sap from plants and body fluids from animals with their piercing-sucking mouth parts
What makes a scorpion different than spiders and other arachnids?
the mother scorpion bears live young instead of laying eggs