Unit 4, Chapter 2 Arthropods
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| What is the center section of an insect or other arthropod? | Thorax
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| What are arthropods with hard shells called? | Crustaceans
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| What is the shieldlike body part that covers the crustacean's cephalothorax? | Carapace
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| What is an external skeleton? | Exoskeleton
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| What is the hind segment of an insect or other arthropod called? | Abdomen
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| What is a series of changes that transform an egg into an adult called? | Metamorphosis
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| What are appendages that help a crustacean eat? | Maxillipeds
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| What is the body segment of arachnids and crustaceans that consists of the head and thorax fused together? | Cephalothorax
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| What are hard plates that form an insect's head? | Sclerites
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| What are invertebrates that have jointed appendages and an exoskeleton called? | Arthropods
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| What are arthropods with six pairs of appendages called? | Arachnids
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| What is a scientist that studies insects called? | Entomologist
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| What is it called when an arthropod floats in the air on long silk threads? | Ballooning
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| What is the tube that carries air so an insect can breathe called? | Trachea
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| The group of arthropods with the greatest number of creatures in it is... | insects
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| Arthropods live.... | in the air, under water and on land
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| Creatures with 2 pairs of antennae belong to which group of arthropods? | Crustaceans
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| Barnacles, with their hard shells, are part of what group? | Crustaceans
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| If a creature has 4 pairs of legs, 2 other pairs of appendages and 2 body segment it is most likely.... | an arachnid
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| If a creature has 3 pairs of legs, 1 pair of antennae, 3 body segments and 2 pairs of wings it is most likely... | an insect
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| All arthropods have.... | an exoskeleton
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| Describe how you would tell the difference between a centipede and a millipede. (3) | Centipedes: flat-bodied, 1 pair of legs per segment, predators, fast, can be poisonous, mostly live in tropics Millipedes: round-bodied, 2 pair of legs per segment, scavengers, slow and wavelike, mostly in dark places
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| Give 3 examples how why God made arthropods AMAZING! | (see amazing arthropods p. 239)
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| What is one advantage and disadvantage of having an exoskeleton? | advantage: protective like a suit of armor, keeps water in
disadvantage: doesn't grow, vulnerable when molting
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