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Arthropods Flashcards

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Exoskeleton

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A body covering, made of chitin and provides support and protection. Limits growth potential.

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Molt

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Shed an outer covering to be replaced with a new one.

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Thorax

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The body region between the head and the abdomen.

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Abdomen

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The body region that comes after the thorax.

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Cephalothorax

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The body region composed of the head and thorax fused together.

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Compound eye

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An eye made of many lenses with a very limited scope.

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Simple eye

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An eye with only one lens.

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Open circulatory system

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A system that allows the blood to flow out of the blood vessels and into varies cavities so that the cells are in direct contact with the blood.

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Name the five common characteristics among arthropods?

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Exoskeleton, Body segmentation, Jointed appendages, Ventral nervous system, An open circulatory system.

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Statocyst

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The organ of balance in a crustacean.

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Gonad

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General term for the organ that produces gametes.

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what five characteristics set arachnids apart from the other arthropods?

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Have 2 more legs, cephalothorax, four pairs of simple eyes, no antenna, breath through book lungs.

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What are the three basic types of webs a spider spins?

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Sheet web, tangle web, and orb web.

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Do all spiders use their silk to spin webs?

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no

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Why are the spiders lungs called book lungs?

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There lungs are made up of several thin layers that extract o2 from the air.

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What four characteristics set insects apart from the other arthropods.

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3 pairs or walking or jumping legs, usually have wings at some stage of life, one pair of antenna, and three segments.

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What four types of wings exist among insects.

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Membranous(flies), scaled wings(butterflies), leather like wings (Grasshoppers), and horny wings (Ladybugs).

18
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Complete metamorphosis

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4 stages. Egg, larva, pupa, adult.

19
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Incomplete metamorphosis

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3 stages. Egg, nymph, adult.

20
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What purpose does the green gland serve?

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It cleans the blood of impurity’s.

21
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What structures beside the gills and the gill chambers, a are vitally important for respiration in a crayfish?

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The swimmerets, and the maxillae.

22
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What happens when a crayfish looses a limb?

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It seals of the limb to stop bleeding then it regenerates the limb.

23
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Where do the fertilized eggs of a crayfish go?

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They are attached to the swimmerets.

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Why do arthropods molt?

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Their exoskeleton gets to small for their growing body.

25
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What two appendages are responsible for taste and touch in a crayfish?

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Antenna and Antennules.

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Why don’t insects have respiratory systems?

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They have a complex network of tracheas that allow air to travel thorough out the body.

27
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If an insect goes through a pupa stage does it complete incomplete or complete metamorphosis?

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Complete.

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Explain the blood flow in crayfish, starting with the pericardial sinus.

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  1. Blood collects in the pericardial sinus.
  2. Blood enters the heart through one of three openings in the hearts surface.
  3. Each opening has a valve that closes when the heart is ready to pump.
  4. absorbs the blood and closes the valve.
  5. heart pumps blood through a series of blood vessels.
  6. vessels dump blood into the varies body cavities.
29
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Insects with two leather-like wings and two membranous wings.

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Coleptera

30
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Social insects with membranous wings.

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Diptera

31
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Insects with two membranous wings and two membranous balancers.

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Lepidoptera

32
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Insects with two horny wings and two membranous wings.

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orthoptera

33
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Insects with scaled wings

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Hymenoptera

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