Arthropods | Insects | Insect Design and Life Cycles | Social Insects | Spiders |
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Insects and Spiders
What are two examples of arthropods?
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Metamorphosis
What process does an insect go through to become an adult?
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Abdomen
What body part does digestion occur in an insect?
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Colony
Social insects, such as ants, live together in a group called a ________.
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Pedipalps
They hold their prey in order to inject venom into the animal they are eating.
What do spiders have on their heads to help hold prey?
Why does this help them? |
Backbone
What does a vertebrate have that an invertebrate does not have?
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Probiscus
What is the tube called that a butterfly uses to suck through?
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Head
What body part of the insect are the mouth parts located?
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Head, Thorax, Abdomen
Name the three parts of an insect.
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Spinnerets located on the abdomen
Where does the silk come out when a spider is building a web?
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An exoskeleton
What is the hard outer covering of an arthropod called?
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Three
How many pairs of legs do insects have?
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Possible Answers: smelling bad, mimicry, speed, stinging, biting
Name two types of protection that insects have?
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An Instinct
What is the knowledge or skill that an animal is born with called?
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Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, or Poisoning
What are four ways spiders get food?
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Insects
What is the largest group of arthropods called?
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They help them gather information about the world around it.
How do antennae help insects?
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Egg, Larva, Pupa, and Adult
What are the stages of complete metamorphosis?
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They help pollinate plants and provide food for people and animals.
How are bees beneficial people, plants, and other animals?
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Black Widow and Brown Recluse
Name the two spiders that are poisonous.
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1. jointed
2. molts
Fill in the two blanks.
Arthropods have __________ legs. Arthropods ___________ its exoskeleton when it becomes too small. |
About 1,000,000.
About how many insects have been discovered by scientists?
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Egg, Nymph, Adult
What are the stages of incomplete metamorphosis?
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They do a special dance to tell how to get to the pollen or nectar. It gives the direction, distance, and time of day.
How do honeybees communicate with each other?
What are they communicating? |
Two
How many body sections do spiders have?
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