Arthropods
Insect Body Parts
Insect Characteristics
Spider Body Parts
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100
Insects and spiders belong to this group of animals
What are arthropods?
100
Insects have three body segments and this many pairs of legs
What is three?
100
Some insects live and work together in groups called this
What are colonies?
100
Spiders have this many legs
What is eight?
100
A spider's web is made of this
What is silk?
200
The largest group of arthropods
What are insects?
200
Insects have two antennae and compound eyes here
What is the head?
200
The knowledge or skill that an animal is born with
What is an instinct?
200
Spiders have this many body sections
What is two?
200
Almost all spiders use this to kill their prey
What is poison?
300
A hard outer covering; vertebrates have one, but invertebrates do not
What is an exoskeleton?
300
Insect digestion occurs here
What is the abdomen?
300
When an insect looks like something it is not, this is one way an insect protects itself
What is mimicry?
300
Spiders are missing these two things that most insects have
What are antennae and wings?
300
These two types of spiders live in North America and are poisonous (these two were mentioned specifically in our textbook)
What are black widows and brown recluse
400
Arthropods have this type of leg
What is jointed?
400
An insect's wings and legs are attached here
What is the thorax?
400
Insects become adults through this process
What is metamorphosis?
400
These produce the silk used to build a web and are located on the spider's abdomen
What are spinnerets?
400
Besides spinning webs, these are some other ways that some spiders catch food
What are trapping, fishing, and hunting?
500
When an insect's exoskeleton gets too small, the insect does this
What is molts (sheds its exoskeleton)?
500
The tube that a butterfly uses to suck
What is a probiscus?
500
The four stages of complete metamorphosis in order from youngest to oldest
What are egg, larva, pupa, and adult?
500
Spiders have these to hold and poison their prey. They look like small legs on their heads.
What are pedipalps?
500
The head and thorax of a spider are joined into one section called this
What is a cephalothorax?