Characteristics
Mr. Kauffman Trivia
Insects
Crustaceans
Arthropods
100

The protective covering on an arthropod.

What is the exoskeleton?

100

The college Mr. Kauffman attends.

What is IUP?

100

The number of body segments that insects like grasshoppers have.

What is three?

100

These appendages are not only used for moving, but also for holding eggs and larvae.

What are swimmerets?

100

The meaning of the word arthropod.

What is "jointed-foot"?

200

Spiders respire with a book lung, adapted for more surface area like this cellular structure.

What is mitochondria?

200

The number of post tests and pretests Mr. Kauffman has made you take this week.

What are 4 / 2 and 2?

200

These are the segments of an insect.

What is head, thorax, and abdomen?

200

The small separation on the carapace, making it 2 pieces.

What is the cervical groove?

200

True or False: All Arthropods are segmented.

True

300

Each arthropod has this kind of leg.

What is jointed?

300

One of the three sports Mr. Kauffman was a part of.

What is basketball/cross country/track?

300
The waxy layer on the exoskeleton that reduces water loss.

What is the cuticle?

300

The action of shedding the exoskeleton to produce another.

What is molting?

300

This is the concentration of sensory and brain structures at the anterior end.

What is cephalization?

400

This type of myriapod has two pairs of legs per body segment.

What is a millipede?

400
The number of classes Mr. Kauffman is currently teaching.

What is three?

400

Insects have 6 legs, attached to this body segment.

What is the thorax?

400

The antennules are used for this on crayfish.

What is to taste?

400

This is the type of circulatory system arthropods have.

What is open?

500

Most arthropods one or more of these pairs of appendages, concentrated towards the head.

What are antennae/antennules?

500

This is Mr. Kauffman's answer to "what did I miss yesterday?".

What is "everything"?

500

The exoskeleton on an insect is made of this material.

What is chitin?

500

This is the kind of eye that crustaceans have.

What is compound?

500

This class of arthropods are extinct. (Hint: Starts with T)

What is Trilobita?

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