Chapter 2 Test Flashcards
The knowledge or skill that an animal is born with
instinct
Insects and spiders are two examples of this
arthropods
An insect becomes an adult through the process of
metamorphosis
Some insects, such as ants, live together in a group called this
colony
This type of animal has a backbone
vertebrate
This type of animals does not have a backbone
invertebrate
Has no wings
spider
Has 3 pairs of legs
insect
Has 2 body sections
spider
Has 4 pairs of legs
spider
Has 3 body sections
insect
The tube a butterfly uses to suck
probiscus
The hard out covering of an arthropod
exoskeleton
The largest group of arthropods
insects
To hold and poison animals that spiders eat, they use these on their heads
pedipalps
The silk used to build a web comes through this
spinnerets
In an insect, digestion occurs here
abdomen
Arthropods have this type of leg
jointed
An arthropod does this to its exoskeleton when it becomes too small
molts
Spiders can get their food these ways
webs, hunting, trapping, fishing
A spider’s web is made of this
silk
These two spiders are poisonous
Black Widow and Brown Recluse
Three parts of an insect
head, thorax, abdomen
Complete metamorphosis
egg, larva, pupa, adult
