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Study Guide
1. What evidence suggests that arthropods are closely related to annelids?
2. What are the features of the arthropod body plan?
3. Why do Arthropods molt?
4. The legs of an adult insect are attached to which part of the body?
5. Illustrate the complete metamorphosis of a butterfly?
6. Millipedes and centipedes differ in that millipedes have the following
characteristics…
7. What are the characteristics of a crustacean?
8. A neighbor commented that there were an increased number of insects
around her house and that she was killing every spider she saw. How might
these actions affect the number of insects around a house?
9. Which structure is used by arachnids to catch and handle prey?
10.
Through what structures do insects respire?
11.
On what body part are a spider’s spinnerets located?
12.
An unknown arthropod has three body segments, one pair of antennae,
and three pairs of jointed legs. What kind of arthropod is it? Explain how you
arrived at this conclusion.
13.
Using the grasshopper diagram below, what are the arrows pointing to?
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15.
What habitat do most arthropods occupy?
16.
What is unique about the appendages of arthropods?
17.
Why are arthropods vulnerable to predators during the molting period?
18.
What is the easiest to tell whether an arthropod is an insect or a spider ?
19.
Define Tagmatization.
20.
Define Metamerism.
21.
What is the exoskeleton of arthropods made of and what is its function?
22.
Define Ecdysis and describe the four stages?
23.
List some examples of the subphylum Crustacea.
24.
Which class represents the largest group in the subphylum Chelicerata?
25.
How do arachnids eat their prey?
26.
What are the two body parts of a spider?
27.
What do pedipalps on spiders do?
28.
How many pairs of walking legs do spiders have?
29.
Chelicerae of spiders are modified into what?
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Label the parts of the crayfish…
32.
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Arthropods Quiz 1 – Teacher Answer Key (guide)
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1. C
2. C
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. D
7. B
8. A
9. Spiders eat insects. When spiders are removed, insects have fewer
predators. Killing the spiders probably led to an increase in the insect
population.