Question | Answer |
Entomologist | A scientist who studies plants |
Classification | A process of arranging animals and otaher things into groups of their species |
Scientific name | A name of a plant or animal derived from the genus name and the species name |
Vertebrates | An animal/mammal with a backbone |
Invertebrates | An animal/mammal without a backbone |
Arthropods | Invertabrates which have external skeletons, jointed appendages and segmented bodies |
External skeleton | The tough, lightweight covering or arthropods |
Chitin | A tough material that helps make up the external skeleton |
Insect | A large class of arthropods that have three distinct body regions |
Antennae | A long movable structure on the head of an invertebrate; uses it to feel, taste, smell or hear |
Spiracles | A tiny opening in an insects abdomen through which air enters the body |
Metamorphosis | The change in form that occurs during the life of an inssect, can be complete or incomplete |
Completete metamorphosis | A processin which an insect goes through the stages of egg, larva, pupa, adult |
Incomplete metamorphosis | A process which an insect goes through the stages of egg, nymph, adult |
Molt | A process in which an insect sheds its external skeleton |
Nocturnal | An animal that is active at night |
Arachnids | Arthropods which include spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites |
Cephalothorax | Body region of a spider or crustacean that is like a head and thorax combined |
Setae | Sensitive hairs responsible for a spider's sense of touch |
Book lungs | An organ in a spider in which several thin sheets of tissue filled with blood vessels, stacked like pages in a book |
Ballooning | The method by which young spiders sail through the air on silk strands that carry them from their place of birth to their new homes |
Spinnerets | Special tubelike structures in a spider that excrete liquid silk when pressure is applied |
Platform spider | A spider that blankets a small section of ground with a sheet web |
Funnel Weaver spider | A spider that shapes its web like a funnel |
House spider | A spider that often weaves webs in the corners of a house |
Ogre-faced spider | A spider that uses its silk to make a tiny net to catch insects |
Trapdoor spider | A spider that digs a hole in the ground, lines it with silk and builds a trap door to wait and hunt insects |
Spitting spider | A spider that spits out a pair of strong sticky threads to catch insects |
Jumping spider | A spider that uses keen eyesight to skillfully hunt |
Fishing spider | Large spider that moves across the surace of the water to catch insects and small frogs |
Water spider | A type of spider that lives its entire life underwater |
Black widow | A spider that is poisonous to humans, has an hourglass on its abdomen |
Brown recluse | Poisonous to humans, known by its dark violin shaped mark on top of its body |
Tarantula | The group of spiders which include the largest spider in the world |
Goliath birdeater | The largest tarantula in the world |
Harvestman | An arachnid with 8 long legs, also called daddy long leg |
Scorpion | Arachnid with a long tail with a poisonous need like pont at the end |
Tick | An arachnid that feeds on the blood of living creatures |
Mite | The smallest arachnids |
Chigger | The immature form of the red harvest mite |
Orthoptera | "Straight Wings", order of insects which includes crickets, grasshoppers, locusts and roaches |
Odonata | "Toothed", order of insects which include dragonflies and damselflies |
Coleoptera | "Sheath Wings", order of insects which includes beetles, June bugs and fireflies |
Hemiptera | "Half Wings", order of insects which includes bed bugs, stink bugs and water striders |
Homoptera | "Same Wings", order of insects which includes aphids, tree hoppers and cicadas |
Lepidoptera | "Scale Wings", order of insects which includes butterflies and moths |
Hymenoptera | "Membrane Wings", order of insects which includes bees, ants and wasps |
Diptera | "Two Wings", order of insects which includes flies, gnats and mosquitos |
Two kingdoms of Linnaeus' classification system | Plant kingdom and animal kingdom |
Three body regions of an insect | Head, thorax and abdomen |
Two types of metamorphosis in insects | Complete and incomplete |
Two body regions of a spider | Abdomen, cephalothorax |
Percentage of arthropods that are insects | 90% |
How many pair of jointed legs do insects have | 3 |
An insect is in this resting stage when it is in its cocoon | Pupa |
Where does an animal's scientific name come from | From its genus and species name, in Greek and Latin |
Why did scientists choose to get the name that way | Because all educated people were familar with Greek and Latin |
Spiders feel with their | Setae |
What do an insect's spiracles help them do | Breathe. It allows air into the body |