Examples
Classes
Anatomy
Vocabulary
100

This class of arthropods include shrimp, crabs, and lobsters.

What are crustaceans?

100

This class of arthropods has two pairs of antennae, two or three body sections, and five or more pairs of legs.

What are crustaceans?

100

These appendages are used to sense the surroundings in all arthropods except arachnids.

What are antennae?

100

The process when an arthropod changes from one body form to another.

What is metamorphosis?

200

This class of arthropods include spiders, ticks, and scorpions.

What are arachnids?

200

This class of arthropods have one pair of antennae, three body sections, and three pairs of legs.

What are insects?

200

These are the respiratory structures of crustaceans.

What are gills?

200

This outer layer of arthropods is made of chitin.

What is the exoskeleton?

300

This class of arthropods includes centipedes.

What is Chilopoda?

300

This class of arthropods has two pairs of legs on each of many rounded body segments.

What is Diplopoda?

300

These structures have many lenses in all arthropods except arachnids.

What are compound eyes?

300

The process by which the outgrown exoskeleton is shed.

What is molting?

400

This class of arthropods include dragonflies, beetles, and bees.

What is Insecta?

400

This class of arthropods have two body sections, no antennae, and four pairs of legs.

What are arachnids?

400

These are the respiratory openings in insects, diplopods, and chilopods.

What are the spiracles?

400

This is the fused head and middle body segment in arachnids and crusteaceans.

What is the cephalothorax?

500

This class of arthropods includes millipedes.

What is Diplopoda?

500

This class of arthropods has one pair of legs attached to each of many flattened body segments.

What is Chilopoda? 

500

These are the respiratory structures of arachnids. 

What are book lungs?

500

System in which blood can move freely through large cavities within the body rather than through veins and arteries.

What is an open circulatory system?

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