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unit 12 and 13 Test
Zoology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does the word extinct mean? | no longer exists |
| According to the Word, when were dinosaurs created? | 6th day |
| What book gives us the most accurate account of dinosaurs? | Bible the book of Job |
| What words of description do we find in the Bible? | eats grass like an ox, strength is in his loins, ppower in the muscles of his belly, tail like a cedar, bones are tubes of bronze, limbs like bars of iron |
| How do we know the elephant or hippo are not the "behemoth" the Bible speaks of? | they have small tails |
| How do we really know what the dinosaurs looked like? | through ancient drawings called petroglyphs |
| Did dinosaurs live during biblical time with the people? If so, how do we know? | the people who drew the pics drew them from what they saw. |
| How do we know dinosaurs haven't been extinct millions of years? | we have found fossils with flexible tissues including blood vessels and blood cells which would have disintigrated if they were millions of years old. |
| What do paleintologists do? | study fossils and give us info about how and when animals lived and what they looked like based on the fossils |
| What is the difference in the stance of a dinosaur and a reptile? | the reptile has a wider stance. |
| What two groups are dinosaurs classified into? | saurischia and ornithischia |
| saurischia classification is based on what? | lizard- hipped |
| Ornithischia classification is based on what? | bird-hipped |
| What do scientists now know about the brontosaurus? | never existed |
| What are some characteristics of sauropods? | long neck and tail, small head nostrils on top of their heads close to their eyes |
| Theropod characteristics? | carnivores, bi-pedal, 5 fingers , 5 toes, claws, sharp serrated teeth |
| Which dinosaur had a bill so flat it resembled the bill of a duck? | hadrosaur |
| Why are dinosaurs extinct today? | limited food supply after the flood, change in weather cooler temps, men hunting them |
| What are some characteristics of arthropods? | tough exolskeleton, segmented body, jointed foot, do not have a back bone(invertebrate) |
| What is arachnophobia? | an extreme fear of spiders |
| What animals are in the arachnid group? | spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, ticks, mites |
| How can you tell if a creature is an arachnid or an insect? | count its legs insect has 6 arachnid has 8 |
| What are pedipalps? | sensitive appendages that give the arachnid a sense of touch and they are used for defense |
| What is the chelicerae? | the mouth part that ends in fangs |
| The body of an arachnid has how many parts? | 2 |
| What are the two parts of an arachnid? | abdomen and cephalothorax |
| What part are the legs and pedpalps attached to? | cephalothorax |
| What part are the lungs located in? | abdomen |
| How do spiders see since they do not have good eyesight? | they can sense with their legs, through smell vibrations and motions some even taste |
| What is different about the foot of a web making spider? | they have a tiny claw at the end that helps them to hang on to the thin thread of its web |
| What is a scopula? | they help the spider stick to smooth surfaces |
| Are spiders carnivores or herbivores? | carnivores |
| What are the 2 poisonous spiders in the US? | brown recluse and black widow |
| How do you identify the brown recluse? | it has a violin shape on its back and is a yellowish to brown color |
| How can you identify the black widow? | they are black and shiny and have a red hourglass shaped mark on their abdomen but this is only for the female |
| What are the uses of the spidersilk? | helps the spider protect its young, catch food, create a home, and help the spider to move around |
| Where does spider silk come from? | silk producing organs called spinneretts |
| What are the three kinds of silk that spiders have? | drag-line silk, capture silk, egg-case silk |
| What are the different kinds of webs spiders make? | orb, funnel, tangle, and sheet webs |
| Name the hunting spiders - | wolf spider, tarantula, crab spiders, fishing spiders, jumping spiders |
| Characteristics of hunting spiders , | fast, great eyesight, deadly venom, hunt their prey |
| Characteristics of harvestman, | has one body, part two eyes, it can eat chunks of food and does not need to liquefy its food, does not spin webs because it is not a spider |
| You will need to label parts of a spider | on pg 229 |
| Characteristics of scorpions | have lobster-like pedipalps used to capture and tear up prey, telson with venomous stinger, non aggressive. |
| What are the 2 types of venom the scorpion has? | one that causes pain, on that causes real harm |
| How does the whip scorpion protect itself? | emits a foul smelling chemical |
| What are acarina? | mites and ticks |
| Characteristics of acarina parasites | most have 8 legs head and abdomen are fused together, fanged mouthparts, excrete toxic digestive juices into their hosts, |
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