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24 Cards in this Set
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What are animals without backbones? |
Invertebrates |
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What are animals with backbones called? |
Vertebrates |
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What are two common kinds of arthropods? |
Insects and spiders |
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What is the hard outside covering of an arthropod? |
Exoskeleton |
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What kind of legs do anthropods have? |
Jointed |
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What is the largest group of arthropods? |
Insects |
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What is the knowledge or skill that an animal is born with? |
Instincts |
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What is a spider's web made of? |
Silk |
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What are four ways spiders may get food? |
Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, or Web |
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What do spiders eat? |
Insects |
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What are two poisonous spiders? |
Black Widow and Brown Recluse Spiders |
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What is a change in form? |
Metamorphosis |
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What are the stages of incomplete metamorphosis? |
1.Egg 2.Nymph 3.Adult |
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What are the stages of complete metamorphosis? |
1.Egg 2.Larva 3.Pupa 4.Adult |
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Some insects live together in a group called a ___. |
Colony |
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What are two kinds of mouths that insects have? |
Chewing and sucking |
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What are the three body parts of an insect? |
Head, thorax, and abdomen |
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What are two types of protection that insects have? |
Exoskeleton, camouflage, tasting bitter, smelling bad, mimicry, speed, stinging, and biting |
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What is the tube that a butterfly uses to suck nectar? |
proboscis |
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What does a spider use to hold and poison its prey? |
pedipalps |
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In what body part does digestion occur for an insect? |
abdomen |
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An insect's legs and wings are attached to what part of the body? |
thorax |
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What part of the spider produces silk for the web? |
spinnerets |
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What is the process of an insect shedding its exoskeleton when it becomes too small? |
molting |
