Mollusks
Arthropods
Insects
Insect Ecology
General
100
Invertebrates with soft unsegmented bodies that are often protected by a hard outer shell.
What is mollusks?
100
Invertebrates that have a external skeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages.
What is arthropods?
100
Arthropods with three body sections, six legs, one pair of antennae, and usually one pair of wings.
What is insect?
100
An organism that makes its own food.
What is producer?
100
Animals that eat only plants.
What is herbivores?
200
Blood is not always inside blood vessels.
What is open circulatory system?
200
A waxy covering or outer skeleton that protects the animal and helps prevent evaporation of water.
What is exoskeleton?
200
A body section to which wings and legs are attached.
What is thorax?
200
An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms.
What is consumer?
200
Animals that eat only other animals.
What is carnivore?
300
Organs that remove oxygen from the water. They have tiny, hairlike structures called cilia and a rich supply of blood vessels.
What is gills?
300
Process of shedding an outgrown exoskeleton.
What is molting?
300
Four stages of developement: egg, larve, pupa, and adult.
What is complete metamorphosis?
300
Breaks down the waste and dead bodies of other organisms.
What is decomposer?
300
Flexible ribbon of tiny teeth, to obtain food.
What is radula?
400
Have a single external shell or no shell at all.
What is gastropods?
400
An arthropod that has two or three body sections, five or more pairs of legs, and two pairs of antennae.
What is crustacean?
400
Has no distinct larval stage. The egg hatches into a nymph, which usually looks like the adult insect without wings.
What is gradual metamorphosis?
400
An animal that carries pollen among plants.
What is pollinator?
400
animals that eat both plants and animals.
What is omnivore?
500
Mollusks that have two shells held together by hinges and a strong muscles.
What is bivalve?
500
Arthropods with two body sections, four pairs of legs and no antennae.
What is arachnids?
500
An insect is enclosed in a protective covering during this stage of metamorphosis.
What is pupa?
500
Invertebrates with an internal skeleton and a system of fluid-filled tubes called a water vascular system.
What is echinoderms?
500
An ocean dwelling mollusk whose foot is adapted to form tentacles around its mouth. The only mollusks with a closed circulatory system.
What is cephalopod?
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