All About Arthropods
All arthropods have this body type of body covering made of chitin; provides support & protection
What is an exoskeleton?
Arachnids have this many PAIRS of walking legs
What is 4?
Insects have this many pairs of walking legs
What is 3?
Echinoderms have this type of skeleton
What is an endoskeleton?
This class contains the largest (in size) arthropods; crayfish are an example
What are Crustacea?
Spiders weave webs using this material
What is silk?
The type of wings found on butterflies and moths; they are easy to rub off, like powder
What are scaled wings?
They are the only animal in this animal kingdom with this type of vascular system
What is a water vascular system?
The three divisions or segments of the arthropod body
What are head, thorax, and abdomen?
The special type of lungs in spiders, because they have thin layers like pages
What are book lungs?
Elaborate system of tubes which provide oxygen to the insect
What are tracheas?
The two main sides of an echinoderm
What are oral and aboral?
Arthropods have this type of nervous system (bottom of the body)
What is a ventral nervous system?
Air enters the exoskeleton of the spider through this split in the abdomen
What is the spiracle?
Members of this order of insects have membranous wings and are social
What is Hymenoptera?
These warty, mobile creatures can live in the abyssal zone of the ocean
What are sea cucumbers?
Arthropods are always bleeding internally because of this system
What is an open circulatory system?
Two parts that spiders use to immobilize prey
What are fangs and venom glands/venom
The four stage of the complete metamorphosis in insects
What are egg, larva, pupa, and adult?
This creature was discovered in 1986 and lives off the coast of the Bahamas and New Zealand
What are sea daisies?