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Arthropod Diversity
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Echinoderm Characteristics
Types of Echinoderms
100
The tough external covering of an arthropod.
What is an exoskeleton?
100
This group of arthropods typically has two pairs of antennae, two or three body sections, and chewing mouthparts called mandibles.
What are crustaceans?
100
Insects have how many pairs of legs?
three
100
Echinoderms have this type of skeleton.
What is an internal skeleton?
100
This echinoderm looks like a warty, moving, pickle
What is a sea cucumber?
200
Structures such as legs and antennae that extend from the body wall. These are jointed in arthropods.
What are appendages?
200
This group of arthropods has two body sections, usually four pairs of walking legs, and appendages called pedipalps and chelicerae used for feeding.
What are chelicerates?
200
Insects have eyes with many lenses to sense changes in their environment. What are the eyes called?
Compound eyes
200
The suction-cup like structures on echinoderms used for feeding and movement.
What are tube feet?
200
This echinoderm sheds one arm to distract a predator while it escapes.
What is a brittle star?
300
When arthropods shed their entire exoskeleton and manufacture a larger one to take its place.
What is molting?
300
My name is misleading. They call me a horseshoe crab but I am really classified in another group. What is it?
What are chelicerates?
300
Nymphs are a phase of this type of metamorphosis.
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
300
The type of symmetry that most echinoderms exhibit
What is five-part radial symmetry?
300
These echinoderms have large solid plates that form a box around their internal organs.
what are sea urchins and sand dollars?
400
The organs that are used for respiration in terrestrial arthropods that have layers of stacked respiratory tissue.
What are book lungs?
400
We have jaws, one pair of antennae, and unbranched appendages.
What are uniramians?
400
The stages of complete metamorphosis
What are larva, pupa, and adult?
400
This system carries out many essential body functions i echinoderms, including respiration, circulation, and movement
What is the water vascular system?
400
Sea lilies and feather stars have this type of feeding style
What is filter feeding?
500
This carbohydrate makes up the tough outer covering of the arthropod.
What is chitin?
500
Most arthropods breathe using these tubes that extend throughout the body. Air enters and leaves these tubes through spiracles.
tracheal tubes
500
chemical signals used by insects to communicate
What are pheromones?
500
The water vascular system opens through this sievelike structure
What is the madreporite?
500
Most sea stars are considered this in terms of their feeding style.
What is carnivorous?
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