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An invertebrate that has an external skeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages

What is an arthropod?

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An insect resting in a chrysalis or cocoon 

What is a larva?

100

The order the moth is in

What is Lepidoptera?

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The spider that makes a net small enough to hold between its legs

What is the ogre-faced spider?

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A useful arachnid with one body section, eight long legs, and an appetite for plant insect pests

What is a harvestman or daddy longlegs?

100

Scientists who study insects

Who are entomologists?

200

The order the social insect is in

What is Hymenoptera?

200

The tough material from which the external skeleton is made

What is chitin?

200

The stages of of incomplete metamorphosis

What are egg, nymph, and adult?

200

A parasite that may cause mange in animals or scabies in humans

What is a  mite?

200

The process of arranging animals or other things into groups

What is classification?

200

The order the true bug is in

What is Hemiptera?

300

Spiders breathe by means

What are book lungs?

300

This spider digs a hole in the ground, lines it with silk, and builds a trap door for it

What is the trap-door spider?

300

Most insects undergo a transformation in appearance known as

What is metamorphosis?

300

The percentage of all arthropods belong to the class of insects

What is about 90%?

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The order the fly is in

What is Diptera?

300

The order the dragonfly is in

What is Odonata?

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The spider that spends its entire life under the water

What is the water spider?

400

An arachnid that has a long tail with a poisonous, needlelike point on the end

What is a scorpion?

400

The distinct number of body regions all insects have

What is three?

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The process in which an insect sheds its external skeleton 

What is molting?

400

These help a spider to feel, hear, and taste

What are antennae?

400

The spider that weaves a sheet web on a small portion of the ground

What is the platform spider?

500

The order the beetle is in

What is Coleoptera?

500

The tubelike structures with which spiders squirt out long streams of liquid silk

What are spinnerets?

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The largest spider in the world

What is the tarantula?

500

The number of legs a spider has

What is eight?

500

An animal that is active at night 

What is an nocturnal animal?

500

The scientific name of an animal these two names

What are genus and species?

600

The number of pairs of jointed legs all insects have

What is three?

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The two distinct body regions of spiders

What are the abdomen and the cephalothorax?

600

Many young spiders leave the nest by sailing away on silk strands by this practice

What is ballooning?

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The order the butterfly is in

What is Lepidoptera?

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The very poisonous spider with a dark violin-shaped mark on its body

What is the brown recluse?

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The tiny hairs on a spider's body that are very sensitive to vibrations

What are setae?

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