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 |