Examples
This class of arthropods include shrimp, crabs, and lobsters.
What are crustaceans?
A body region composed of the head and thorax fused together.
What is cephalothorax?
These appendages are used to sense the surroundings in all arthropods except arachnids.
What are antennae?
The process when an arthropod changes from one body form to another.
What is metamorphosis?
Order Orthoptera
What is the order of insects with one pair of leathery wings covering their membranous wings?
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 are the respiratory structures of crustaceans.
What are gills?
The outer layer of arthropods is made of this tough but flexible substamce.
What is chitin?
What order of insects has thick, horned wings covering the entire body?
Coleoptera
This class of arthropods includes centipedes.
What is Chilopoda?
This class of arthropods has two pairs of legs on each of many rounded body segments.
What is Diplopoda?
These structures are the organs of balance in crustaceans.
What are statocysts?
Molting
What is the process by which the outgrown exoskeleton is shed?
Members of this order each have particular function within their society.
What is Order Hymenoptera?
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 are the respiratory openings in insects, diplopods, and chilopods.
What are the spiracles?
The 2 structures missing in the nymph stage of incomplete metamorphosis.
What are wings and reproductive organs?
What is Order Lepidoptera?
This class of arthropods includes sand dollars and sea urchins.
What is Eichinoderm?
This class of arthropods has one pair of legs attached to each of many flattened body segments.
What is Chilopoda?
These are the respiratory structures of arachnids.
What are book lungs?
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?
Both membraneous wings and stabilizers.
What is Order Diptera?