Common Characteristics of Arthropods Take 1
The specific name of the skeleton that Arthropods have, which is on the outside of their bodies.
The nervous system of an arthropod runs along this portion of its body.
What is the ventral side?
What is a centipede?
Spiders have this number of legs.
8 total, 4 pairs
These are the organs that crustaceans breathe through.
What are gills?
This molecule is both tough and flexible and is the main component of an arthropod's skeleton
These are the three segments of an arthropod that has the three-part body segmentation plan.
What is a head, thorax, and abdomen?
Insects have this number of walking (or jumping) legs.
What is three?
This structure is spun by a spider's silk and can be very strong and flexible.
What is a web?
Crustaceans have two of these structures which make up their brain.
What are ganglia?
To grow members of Phylum Arthropoda have to go through this process.
What is molting?
This is the type of eye that has multiple lenses.
What is a compound eye?
This type of wing is thin, transparent, and displays detailed veins.
What is membranous?
These are specialized lungs spiders have.
What are book lungs?
These structures in a crustacean are used for defense and grasping prey
What are chelipeds?
This is the technical name for the body segmentation of an arthropod where the head and thorax are fused together.
What is a cephalothorax?
Arthropods have this type of circulatory system.
What is an open circulatory system?
Before going through metamorphosis this is the stage an adolescent insect is in.
What is the larva stage?
This is the number of pairs of eyes that spiders have.
What is 4?
This is the term for the single plate which covers the cephalothorax region of a crayfish (and most other crustaceans)
What is a carapace?
This is what the word "Arthropoda" means.
What is joint-footed?
Arthropods have this structure that allows for touch, taste, and smell.
What are antennae?
Insects actually lack a respiratory system, instead, they breathe through these interconnected structures.
What is trachea?
These two structures in a spider allow it to paralyze prey.
What are the Fangs and poison glands?
Crayfish have their sense of balance thanks to these structures at the end of their antennules.
What are statocysts?