Living Things
Animals that are food for other animals are called this
What is prey?
The way some things blend in with their surroundings is called this
What is camouflage?
This type of animal does not have a backbone
What is an invertebrate?
Name the tube a butterfly uses to suck.
What is a proboscis?
What are these four different things used for with spiders?
building a web, hunting, trapping, fishing
What is catching food?
All living things are called this
What are organisms?
Some living things are protected by looking like other living things. This is called ...
What is mimicry?
The hard outer covering of an arthropod is called this
What is the exoskeleton?
The process of change in the form of an animal as it grows is called this
What is metamorphosis?
The area on a spider's abdomen that the silk comes out of
What are the spinnerets?
All the nonliving things surrounding an organism are called this
What is its environment?
A change in a characteristic of a living thing that allows it to survive in its environment is called this
What is an adaptation?
When an arthropod's exoskeleton becomes too small, the animal must do this, or shed its exoskeleton
What is molting?
A knowledge or skill that an animal is born with is called an
What is an instinct?
Pedipalps on spider's heads are used for these two reasons
What is for holding and poisoning the animals they eat?
All the living and nonliving things in one area are known as this
What is an ecosystem?
Some groups of animals do this, which is when they move from one place to another
What is migrate?
The three parts of an insect include
What is the head, thorax, and abdomen?
These are the stages of what type of metamorphosis?
egg, nymph, adult
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
The group of arthropods that spiders are a part of
What are arachnids?
These three things determine the kinds of plants/animals that can live in an ecosystem
What are sunlight, soil, and temperature?
Some animals do this, which is when they go into a deep sleep during the coldest months of the year
What is hibernating?
Which of the following is not a characteristic of an arthropod?
has jointed legs, is a kind of vertebrate, has an exoskeleton, molts as it grows
What is "is a kind of vertebrate?"
These are the stages of this type of metamorphosis
egg, larva, pupa, adult
What is complete metamorphosis?
Name the differences between insects and spiders regarding these four areas:
pairs of legs
body sections
wings
antennae
What is
Spiders: 4 pairs of legs, 2 body sections, no wings, no antennae
Insects: 3 pairs of legs, 3 body sections, usually has wings, has antennae