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Ch. 10
100
An appendage on the head of an arthropod that contains sense organs
What is an antennae?
100
An organism that breaks down chemicals from wastes and dead organisms, and returns important materials to the soil and water
What is a decomposer?
100
A stage of gradual metamorphosis that usually resembles the adult insect
What is a nymph?
100
A consumer that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
100
An organism that can make its own food
What is a producer?
200
A natural predator or disease used to combat a pest insect
What is biological control?
200
A circulatory system in which the heart pumps blood into open spaces in the body and blood is not confined to blood vessels
What is an open circulatory system?
200
An organ that removes oxygen from water
What is a gill?
200
An external skeleton
What is an exoskeleton?
200
A stage in complete metamorphosis in which an insect changes from larva to adult
What is a pupa?
300
The hind section of an arthropod’s body that contains its reproductive organs and part of its digestive tract
What is the thorax?
300
The study of how organisms interact with their environment
What is ecology?
300
A consumer that eats only plants
What is an herbivore?
300
Extensions of an echinoderm’s water vascular system that stick out from the body and function in movement and obtaining food
What are tube feet?
300
A flexible ribbon of tiny teeth
What is a radula?
400
A consumer that eats only animals
What is a carnivore?
400
An internal skeleton
What is an endoskeleton?
400
The process of shedding an outgrown exoskeleton
What is molting?
400
A chemical designed to kill a pest animal
What is a pesticide?
400
An arthropod’s mid-section, to which its wings and legs are attached
What is the abdomen?
500
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
What is a consumer?
500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
What is the food chain?
500
A process in which an animal’s body undergoes dramatic changes in form during its life cycle
What is metamorphasis?
500
The transfer of pollen from male reproductive structures to female reproductive structures in plants
What is pollination?
500
A system of fluid-filled tubes in an echinoderm’s body
What is the water vascular system?