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7 Science Chapter 10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| protein & chitin | exoskeletons are made primarily of these 2 substances |
| Jean-Henri Fabre | he was considered the world's greatest entomologist |
| insects | only group of invertebrates that can fly |
| labrum | upper lip of an insect |
| labium | lower lip of an insect |
| mandible | side to side jaws of an insect |
| maxillae | type of jaw an insect would use to hold food |
| palps | sensory organs used to feel and taste the insect's food |
| Orthopterans | crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, locusts, mantises and cockroaches all belong to this group |
| Orthopterea | straight wings |
| paper wasps, hornets, yellow jackets | three (3) types of social wasps |
| atlas moth | largest lepiopteran |
| calcium carbonate | substance that hardens a crustacean's exoskeleton |
| true spiders | spiders with side to side movement of the chelicerae |
| mygalomorphs | spiders with chelicerae that move up and down |
| chelicerae | pair of appendages which are used for seizing and crushing prey |
| 90 | percent of animals species that are arthropods |
| head of insect | first body region; eyes, antennae, mouthparts |
| thorax of insect | middle region; legs, wings |
| abdomen | hindmost region; spiracles, sometimes special appendages |
| simple eye | insect eye with only one lens |
| compound eye | insect eye with more than one lens |
| Hemiptera | order of insects with wings that form an X on their backs (true bugs) |
| Coleoptera | largest order of insects |
| complete metamorphosis | egg, larva, pupa, adult |
| Hymenoptera | order that most social insects belong to |
| ovipositor | female insect's egg laying organ |
| spiracles | openings that allow air to enter into an insect's respiratory system |
| tracheae | tubes connected to an insects spiracles |
| molting | process through which an insect sheds its external skeleton |
| exoskeleton | outside skeleton of an arthropod |
| proboscis | used by moths to drink water |
| nymph | immature form of an insect that resembles the adult but has different body proportions and lacks wings |
| cocoon | structure that moths spend their pupal state in |
| antennae | an insect's "feelers" |
| elytra | a beetle's hardened forewings |
| sensilla | little sense organs |
| larva | the wormlike growing stage of complete metamorphosis |
| Lepidoptera | scaled winged insects (butterflies and moths) |
| Diptera | two winged insects like flies and mosquitoes |
| Neuroptera | lacewings and ant lions |
| Odonata | dragonflies and damselfies |
| Homoptera | same winged insects such as cicadas and leafhoppers |
| scare predators | purpose of eyespots on the luna moth |
| drones | male bees |
| two | number of pairs of wngs that most insect have |
| moths | lepidopterans that are usually nocturnal |
| carapace | the hard shell that covers the cephalothorax of some crustaceans |
| chelipeds | crustacean's claw tipped legs |
| arachnids | group including spiders |
| millipede | wormlike arthropod that has many body segments with 2 pairs of leg on every segment |
| book lungs | respiratory structure of arachnids that with "pages" that exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide |
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