Test 3 (2.1 - 2.6)

Question 1

The scientific name of an animal uses both genus and this

Answer 1

species

Question 2

About what percentage of all arthropods belong to the class of insects

Answer 2

90%

Question 3

The stages of incomplete metamorphosis

Answer 3

egg, nymph, and adult

Question 4

All insects have this many distinct body regions

Answer 4

3

Question 5

An insect resting in a chrysalis or cocoon is known as being in what stage?

Answer 5

pupa

Question 6

The tubelike structures with which spiders squirt out long, thin streams of liquid silk

Answer 6

spinnerets

Question 7

All insects have how many pairs of jointed legs

Answer 7

3

Question 8

What helps and insect to feel, hear, and taste

Answer 8

antennae

Question 9

An invertebrate that has an external skeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages

Answer 9

arthropod

Question 10

The process of arranging animals or other things into groups according to their similarities

Answer 10

classification

Question 11

Most insects undergo this transformation in appearance

Answer 11

metamorphosis

Question 12

The process in which an insect sheds its external skeleton

Answer 12

molting

Question 13

An animal that is active at night is called what?

Answer 13

Nocturnal

Question 14

a useful arachnid with one body section; eight long, scrawny legs; and an appetite for plant lice and other insect pests

Answer 14

harvestman or daddy longlegs

Question 15

a parasite that may cause mange in animals or scabies in humans

Answer 15

mite

Question 16

an arachnid that has a long tail with a poisonous, needlelike point on the end

Answer 16

scorpion

Question 17

Spider have how many legs

Answer 17

8

Question 18

The very poisonous spider with a dark violin-shaped mark on its body

Answer 18

brown recluse

Question 19

What are a spiders two distinct body regions

Answer 19

abdomen and cephalothorax

Question 20

The spider that is the largest in the world

Answer 20

tarantula

Question 21

Spiders breathe using

Answer 21

book lungs

Question 22

The spider that spends its entire life underwater

Answer 22

water spider

Question 23

Many young spiders leave the nest by sailing away on silk strands - this is called

Answer 23

ballooning

Question 24

The spider that sometimes digs a hole in the ground, lines it with silk, and builds a silks trap door

Answer 24

trap-door spider

Question 25

The spider that weaves a sheet web on a small portion of ground

Answer 25

platform spider

Question 26

The spider that makes a net small enough to hold between its legs

Answer 26

ogre-faced spider

Question 27

Using complete sentences, explain why Greek and Latin are used for the scientific names of animals

Answer 27

When animals were classified, educated people in the Western world were familiar with Latin and Greek. Latin and Greek terms were used by scientists so that scientists of all countries would understand what animal was being referred to.

Question 28

Be able to identify the following

Answer 28

bettle, true bug, social insect, butterfly, moth, dragonfly, fly