Show:
Spider Body
Spider Facts
More Spider Body
More spider facts
TRUE -or FALSE
100
A spider's silk making glands are located here.
What is the abdomen?
100
The word for baby spiders.
What are spiderlings?
100
The place to which a spider's legs are attached.
What is the cephalothorax?
100
A strand of silk that trails behind a spider when it travels.
What is a dragline?
100
All spiders spin webs.
FALSE.
200
These organs are used by spiders to spin silk.
What are spinnerets?
200
The scientific name for spider.
What is arachnid?
200
Number of eyes found on most spiders.
What is 8?
200
A spider's skin is covered in this so it will not stick to it's own silk.
What is oil?
200
Since they have so many eyes, spiders have excellent eyesight.
FALSE.
300

Used to inject venom into the spider's prey.

What are fangs?

300

Scientists use spider venom to make this.

What is medicine?

300
This is where the spider hears.
What are slits in the exoskeleton?
300
The 2 most dangerous spiders in the United States.
What are the brown recluse and the black widow?
300
There are about 34,000 different types of spiders in the world.
TRUE.
400
These are similar to an insect's antennae.
What are pedipalps?
400
A spiders silk is as strong as this metal.
What is steel?
400
The spinnerets are attached to this part of a spider's body.
What is the abdomen?
400
Spiders are very helpful to farmers by eating these.
What are insects?
400
Many spiders can walk up walls and across ceilings.
TRUE.
500
This is where the spider's organs for tasting and smelling are located.
What are feet?
500

Scientists are trying to find ways to use spider silk to make these 2 things.

What are bullet proof vests and cables for bridges?

500
A spider's body is made up of these 2 parts.
What are the abdomen and the cephalothorax?
500
A fear of spiders.
What is arachnophobia?
500
When a spider grows its exoskeleton stretches.
FALSE