Question | Answer |
Artery | A blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart. |
Blood | The fluid tissue that moves through the bodies of certain organisms, carrying substances to and from cells. |
Complete Metamorphosis | Insect metamorphosis that includes four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. |
Compound eye | Eyes having many small lenses such as insect eyes: such eyes provide a mosaic of images rather than a single image. |
exoskelelton | An external skeleton composed of touch plates that protect and support an animal. |
heart | A muscular organ that pumps blood |
incomplete metamorphosis | insect metamorphosis that includes three stages: egg, nymph, and adult |
larva | an immature stage in the life cycle of many animals |
malpighian | thread like tube that extracts wastes from an insects blood and empties them into the intestine |
metamorphosis | a changing of an animal's shape or form as the animal develops from an egg to an adult |
molt | to shed scales, feathers, fur or an exoskeleton |
open circulatory system | a type of circulation in which the blood passes from blood vessels into body spaces around organs and tissues before returning to the heart |
pupa | a resting stage during the complete metamorphosis of certain insects |
trachea | a tube that carries air between the Pharynx and the lungs; in insects, one of the tiny tubes that branch throughout the body, carrying air to the tissues |
tube feet | small, tubular structures of echinoderms: used for locomotion and feeding |