Classes
This class of arthropods include shrimp, crabs, and lobsters.
What are crustaceans?
This class of arthropods has two pairs of antennae, two or three body sections, and five or more pairs of legs.
What are crustaceans?
This body structure is the fusion between the thorax and head of some arthropods.
What is the cephalothorax?
The process when an arthropod changes from one form to another.
What is metamorphosis?
This arthropod can cause Lyme disease in humans.
What are ticks?
This class of arthropods include spiders, ticks, and scorpions.
What are arachnids?
This class of arthropods have one pair of antennae, three body sections, and three pairs of legs.
What are insects?
These body structures help some arthropods obtain food and are used for defense.
What are chelipeds (claws) or mandibles?
What material makes up the exoskeleton?
Chitin
Arthropods were the first animals to do this.
What is invade land and sky?
This class of arthropods include centipedes.
What is Myriopoda?
This specific arthropod has a special organ called a green gland
Crayfish
This body structure is a waxy, water proof layer that protects the arthropod and prevents the animal from drying out on land.
What is the exoskeleton?
An animal with no backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
The process by which the outgrown exoskeleton is shed.
What is molting (ecdysis)?
This class of arthropods include dragonflies, beetles, and bees.
What is Insecta?
This class of arthropods have two body sections, no antennae, and four pairs of legs.
What are arachnids?
These body structures contain the arthropods sense organs.
What are the antennae?
Having many individual body sections like annelids.
What is segmentation?
Arthropods make up this percentage of all animals.
What is 80-90%
This class of arthropods includes millipedes.
What is Myriapoda?
This specific type of arthropod has eight long legs, no fangs, and only have two eyes
Harvestmen or daddy long legs
What are green glands?
System in which blood can move freely through large cavities within the body rather than strictly veins and arteries.
What is open circulatory system?
There are over this many discovered species of arthropods.
What is one million?