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68 Cards in this Set
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animals without backbones
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invertebrates
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invertebrates with jointed appendages
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arthropods
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external skeleton
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exoskeleton
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substance chemically similar to cellulose or starch
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chitin
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characteristics of all arthropods
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jointed legs, segmented body
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five classes of arthropods
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insects, crustaceans, arachnids, centipedes, millipedes
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make up 70% of all species
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insects
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scientists who study insects
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entomologists
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body regions of all insects
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head, thorax, abdomen
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characteristics shared by insects
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exoskeleton, 3 body regions, 3 pairs of jointed legs, 1 pair of antennae, compound and simple eyes, tracheae for breathing
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process by which insects mature
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metamorphosis
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stages of incomplete metamorphosis
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egg, nymph, adult
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immature form of an insect that looks like the adult but lacks wings
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nymph
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stages of complete metamorphosis
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egg, larva, pupa, adult
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worm-like stage
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larva
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resting stage of insect life
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pupa
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place pupa rests
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cocoon or chrysalis
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eye composed of many independent lenses and retinas
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compound eye
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components of an insect's mouth
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mouthparts
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grasshopper's mouthparts
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labrum, labium, mandibles, maxillae, palpus
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fingerlike organ that may taste a grasshopper's food
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palpus
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three segments of grasshopper's thorax
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prothorax, mesothorax, metathorax
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segments of a grasshopper's leg
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coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus
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segment of grasshopper's body containing many vital organs
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abdomen
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respiratory openings in a grasshopper's abdomen
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spiracles
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grasshopper's eardrum
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tympanum
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temporary storage for food eaten by a grasshopper
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crop
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glands that produce special digestive enzymes in a grasshopper
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gastric ceca
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container where female grasshopper stores sperm until ready to lay eggs
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seminal receptacle
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toothed insects (order and examples)
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Odonata; dragonflies and damselflies
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two-winged insects (order and examples)
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Diptera; flies, gnats, mosquitos
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membrane-winged insects (order and examples)
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Hymenoptera; ants, bees, wasps
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sheath-winged insects (order and examples)
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coleoptera; beetles
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straight-winged insects (order and examples)
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Orthoptera; crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, mantids, roaches
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same-winged insects (order and examples)
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homoptera; cicada
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scale-winged insects (order and examples)
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lepidoptera; butterflies and moths
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half-winged insects (order and examples)
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Hemiptera; true bugs: bedbug, chinch bug, squash bug, stinkbug
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insect with a half-wing design and piercing-sucking mouthparts
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bug
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order of insects responsible for dysentery, sleeping sickness, and typhoid fever
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diptera (flies, gnats, mosquitos)
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order of insects containing most common social insects
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hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps)
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three kinds of bees in a honeybee colony
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queen, drones, workers
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egg-laying female bee
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queen
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male bee
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drone
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non-egg-laying female bee
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worker
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means of insect control
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quarantine control, agricultural control, biological control, chemical control
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chemicals used to kill harmful insects
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insecticides, pesticides
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spiders, ticks, mites, scorpions
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Arachnida
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two distinct body regions of spiders
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head fused to thorax and abdomen
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name for spider's thorax
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cephalothorax
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North American spiders whose bites are harmful to man
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black widow, brown recluse spider, brown widow, red-legged widow, sac spider, varied widow
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short appendages used by a spider to seize and kill or crush its prey
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chelicerae
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appendage attached to each side of a spider's mouth
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pedipalp
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pad of hairs on last segment of a spider's leg
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scopula
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kind of stomach a spider has
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sucking stomach
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components of a spider's respiratory system
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trachaea, book lungs, spiracles
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organs with which a spider spins silk
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spinnerets
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baby spiders
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spiderlings
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arachnids famous for their long, spindly legs
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daddy longlegs
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stinging arachnids
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scorpions
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differences between centipedes and millipedes
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centipede: flattened not rounded body, long not short antennae, poisonous nor harmless, single not double pair of legs on each body segment
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hard outer shell of a crayfish
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carapace
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forward extension of carapace that protects crayfish's head
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rostrum
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three sets of appendages that help a crayfish hold onto its food
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maxillipeds
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pair of appendages with pincers on crayfish
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chelipeds
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crayfish's abdominal appendages
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swimmerets
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crayfish's flipper
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uropod
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first section of crayfish's stomach, acts as gizzard
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gastric mill
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special excretory organs in front of crayfish's stomach
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green glands
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