An Arachnid by Any Other Name
This is the nickname for harvestmen spiders.
What is a daddy long legs?
This is the zone lit by sunlight, but away from the shore.
What is the limnetic zone?
This is the Illinois state tree.
What is the white oak?
This zone is pitch black, barely above freezing, and home to single celled organisms, plankton, and small fish.
What are the trenches?
In addition to the vinegaroon, this arachnid can spray its venom.
What is the scorpion?
This is another name for cobweb spiders.
What are cellar spiders?
This zone is at the bottom along the bed of a lake or pond.
What is the benthic zone?
This layer of living cells moves sugar through the tree.
What is phloem?
The only light in this zone comes from bioluminescent animals like the anglerfish and nautilus. It's at least 1000 meters from the surface and stays around 4 degrees Celcius.
What is the midnight zone?
This is the type of venom that scorpions have.
This is another name for deerticks.
What is blacklegged ticks?
This is the zone at the top of a body of water that gets some sunlight.
What is the photic zone?
This tree layer is responsible for making new xylem and phloem cells.
What is the cambium layer?
This zone goes up to 200 meters below the surface. It's the only zone that plants can grow in.
What is the sunlight zone?
This is the vinegar-smelling liquid that a vinegaroon sprays.
What is acetic acid?
This is another name for the spined micrathena.
What is the spiny bellied orb weaver?
This is the zone at the bottom of a body of water where sunlight does not penetrate.
What is the aphotic zone?
These drinking straw-like tubes make up earlywood and latewood.
What is xylem?
This zone has very faint light, and is home to bioluminescent animals, squid, jellyfish, zooplankton, and other fish. It reaches from 200 to 1000 meters below the surface.
What is the twilight zone?
This is the only type of scorpion whose venom can kill a human.
What is the Arizona bark scorpion?
These are the two nicknames for the brown recluse.
What are fiddleback spider and violin spider?
This zone is close to the shore where sunlight reaches to the bottom, where aquatic plants can be found.
What is the littoral zone?
From the outside to the center, these are the layers of a tree.
What are bark, phloem, cambium, sapwood, heartwood?
This zone stretches from 4000-6000 meters below the surface. It's pitch black, near freezing, and home to echinoderms like sea pigs and sea urchins.
What is the abyssal zone?
These are two ways that harvestmen can escape predators.
What are 1) detach a leg and 2) group together by the thousands.