Arthropods
This is the largest phylum of the animal kingdom. It includes insects, chelicerates, and crustaceans.
What are arthropods?
These creatures have one or two body sections and claw like appendages. They include scorpions, horseshoe crabs, arachnids and mites.
What are chelicerates?
barnacles (sessile), crabs, crayfish, shrimp, krill, isopods (marine version of pill bugs) and lobster are all examples of this...
What are crustaceans?
This species makes up the majority of the animal kingdom.
What are insects?
Some insects have this that help them capture their prey
What are stingers?
Arthropods have a skeleton on the outside of their body called this...
What is an exoskeleton?
Spins spider silk from a protein in the spider's abdomen
What are spinnerets?
True or false: A crustacean's limbs will grow back if they loose one in battle.
What is true?
What body parts helps insects sense their environment?
This crustacean is considered a keystone species because their are so many of them and they are food for so many different types of marine animals.
What are krill?
Arthropods have special eyes with thousands of lenses called...
What are compound eyes?
appendages that chelicerates use to eat, mate and sense their environment
What are pedipalps?
pairs of flipper like appendages on a crustacean's abdomen
What are swimmerets?
flies, mosquitoes, gnats, butterflies, moths, beetles, bees, ants, grasshoppers, crickets, and cockroaches are all insects that have this part that helps them to fly, find prey, mate and avoid predators
What are wings?
If an arthropod does not have book lungs, then it will have this...
What are book gills?
When the head and thorax are together on an arthropod it is called...
What is a cephalothorax?
Organs that allow air to enter the bodies of chelicerates like spiders, scorpions and mites.
What are book lungs?
appendages near a crustacean's mouths that is used to crush their food.
What is a mandible?
Two wingless insects
What are termites and silverfish?
parasitic chelicerates
What are mites and ticks?
Since arthropods have an exoskeleton, they need to do this in order to grow...
What is molt?
The parts to chelicerates use to sense their environment
What are their feet and their compound eyes?
The first three pairs of legs in crustaceans that usually also have claws and are used for are used for capturing prey, fighting, fending off predators and grooming.
What are chelipeds?
small pores on the sides of an insect that help them breathe
What are spiracles?
this chelicerate has amazing antibacterial properties in their blue blood
What is a horseshoe crab?