| A | B |
|---|
| joint | place where two bones meet |
| exoskeleton | Rigid outer covering - outside |
| Living Environments | Air, land and water |
| Groups of Arthropods | Crustaceans, centripedes & Millipedes, and Arachnids |
| Examples of Crustaceans | crabs, lobsters, crayfish and shrimp |
| Regeneration | ability to grow back lost body parts |
| Carnivorous | meat eaters |
| venom | inject poisons |
| Herbivorous | plant eaters |
| Examples of Arachnids | spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites |
| Environment which spiders live in | on land and water |
| Environment which scorpions live | in dry desert areas |
| Environment which ticks and mites live | in/on plants and animals |
| Part of the spider's body that secretes silk | Glands |
| nocturnal | night |
| Main characterisitics of anthropods | jointed legs and exoskeleton |
| Insects' bodies are divided into ____ sections | Three |
| Insects have _____ pairs of legs | Three |
| antennae | ability to feel the environment with them |
| Metamorphosis | a change in physical appearance as an organism goes through the stages of development |
| Example of metamorphosis | caterpillar --> butterfly |
| stages of metamorphosis | egg --> larva --> pupa --> adult |
| Pheromones | chemicals given off by an insect to attract another insect |
| Examples of social insects | ants, termites, some wasp species and bees |
| Camouflage | blends into its environment |
| Mantle | provides the material that makes up the shell of a mollusk |
| univalves | one shell |
| Radula | located in the mouth of a mollusk - file food |
| Examples of Univalve Mollusks | garden snail & slugs |
| bivalve | two shells |
| Examples of Bivalve Mollusks | clams, mussels and oysters |
| Examples of head-footed mollusks | squid, octopus and nautilus |
| water propulsion system | force water out tubes in their bodies causing them to move quickly in the opposite direction |
| What are the main characterisitics that all mollusks have in common? | soft, fleshy bodies |
| echinoderms | have rough, spiny skins |
| Examples of echinoderms | sea cucumber, sea lilies, sea urchins and sand dollars |
