Science 5; Test 3
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| Entomologist | A scientist who studies plants
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| Classification | A process of arranging animals and otaher things into groups of their species
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| Scientific name | A name of a plant or animal derived from the genus name and the species name
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| Vertebrates | An animal/mammal with a backbone
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| Invertebrates | An animal/mammal without a backbone
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| Arthropods | Invertabrates which have external skeletons, jointed appendages and segmented bodies
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| External skeleton | The tough, lightweight covering or arthropods
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| Chitin | A tough material that helps make up the external skeleton
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| Insect | A large class of arthropods that have three distinct body regions
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| Antennae | A long movable structure on the head of an invertebrate; uses it to feel, taste, smell or hear
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| Spiracles | A tiny opening in an insects abdomen through which air enters the body
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| Metamorphosis | The change in form that occurs during the life of an inssect, can be complete or incomplete
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| Completete metamorphosis | A processin which an insect goes through the stages of egg, larva, pupa, adult
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| Incomplete metamorphosis | A process which an insect goes through the stages of egg, nymph, adult
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| Molt | A process in which an insect sheds its external skeleton
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| Nocturnal | An animal that is active at night
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| Arachnids | Arthropods which include spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites
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| Cephalothorax | Body region of a spider or crustacean that is like a head and thorax combined
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| Setae | Sensitive hairs responsible for a spider's sense of touch
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| Book lungs | An organ in a spider in which several thin sheets of tissue filled with blood vessels, stacked like pages in a book
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| 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
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| Spinnerets | Special tubelike structures in a spider that excrete liquid silk when pressure is applied
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| Platform spider | A spider that blankets a small section of ground with a sheet web
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| Funnel Weaver spider | A spider that shapes its web like a funnel
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| House spider | A spider that often weaves webs in the corners of a house
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| Ogre-faced spider | A spider that uses its silk to make a tiny net to catch insects
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| 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
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| Spitting spider | A spider that spits out a pair of strong sticky threads to catch insects
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| Jumping spider | A spider that uses keen eyesight to skillfully hunt
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| Fishing spider | Large spider that moves across the surace of the water to catch insects and small frogs
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| Water spider | A type of spider that lives its entire life underwater
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| Black widow | A spider that is poisonous to humans, has an hourglass on its abdomen
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| Brown recluse | Poisonous to humans, known by its dark violin shaped mark on top of its body
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| Tarantula | The group of spiders which include the largest spider in the world
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| Goliath birdeater | The largest tarantula in the world
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| Harvestman | An arachnid with 8 long legs, also called daddy long leg
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| Scorpion | Arachnid with a long tail with a poisonous need like pont at the end
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| Tick | An arachnid that feeds on the blood of living creatures
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| Mite | The smallest arachnids
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| Chigger | The immature form of the red harvest mite
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| Orthoptera | "Straight Wings", order of insects which includes crickets, grasshoppers, locusts and roaches
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| Odonata | "Toothed", order of insects which include dragonflies and damselflies
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| Coleoptera | "Sheath Wings", order of insects which includes beetles, June bugs and fireflies
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| Hemiptera | "Half Wings", order of insects which includes bed bugs, stink bugs and water striders
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| Homoptera | "Same Wings", order of insects which includes aphids, tree hoppers and cicadas
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| Lepidoptera | "Scale Wings", order of insects which includes butterflies and moths
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| Hymenoptera | "Membrane Wings", order of insects which includes bees, ants and wasps
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| Diptera | "Two Wings", order of insects which includes flies, gnats and mosquitos
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| Two kingdoms of Linnaeus' classification system | Plant kingdom and animal kingdom
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| Three body regions of an insect | Head, thorax and abdomen
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| Two types of metamorphosis in insects | Complete and incomplete
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| Two body regions of a spider | Abdomen, cephalothorax
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| Percentage of arthropods that are insects | 90%
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| How many pair of jointed legs do insects have | 3
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| An insect is in this resting stage when it is in its cocoon | Pupa
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| Where does an animal's scientific name come from | From its genus and species name, in Greek and Latin
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| Why did scientists choose to get the name that way | Because all educated people were familar with Greek and Latin
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| Spiders feel with their | Setae
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| What do an insect's spiracles help them do | Breathe. It allows air into the body
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