General Knowledge
Define exoskeleton
Skeleton on the outside
fused head and thorax
What is cephalothorax
How many legs does an arachnid have?
Eight
What’s the difference between millipedes and centipedes diets?
Centipedes are dangerous predators; Millipedes are very docile plant eaters.
What is the drawback of having an exoskeleton?
The organism must molt to grow and is unprotected during that time.
What is molting?
When an athropod sheds their exoskeleton to grow.
General term for antennae and legs
appendage
# of legs in crustaceans
10
Order for beetles
Coleoptera
What is the largest arthropod?
Coconut crab (up to three feet across!)
What are the three segments of an arthropods body?
Head, Thorax, and Abdomen (some have cephalothorax - fused head and thorax)
Difference between a butterfly and moth
body, antennae, wing position
sucking and piercing mouthparts, like a spider
Chelicerae
Common nam for odonata
ADragon or damsel fly
class for horseshoe crabs
merostomata
What are 3 of the five common characteristics of arthropods?
Exoskeleton, Body segments, jointed appendages, breathe with spiracles or gills, open circulatory system
Difference between a bee and a bee fly
wings, antennae
THis many legs per body segment on diplopoda
4
hymenoptera
what are bees wasps ants
This is how horseshoe crab blood will let us know if something is contaminated
what is congeal or clot around the contaminant
What does an arthropod use it’s antennae for? (3 things)
Touch, taste, & smell
Order name for brightly colored flying insects with scales in their wings
Lepidoptera
Insects do not breathe through their mouths, how do they get oxygen?
spiracles
Order name for true bugs
hemiptera
kingdom phylum class and order for a grasshopper
animalae, arthropoda, insecta, orthoptera