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Biology
10th Grade
03/06/2012

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5 classes of arthropods
2 exampes
Definition
Arachnids-spiders ticks and scorpions
Malacostraca-lobsters and crabs
Insecta-ants and flies
Diplopoda-millipedes
Chilopoda-centipedes
Term
List the benefits and limitations of an exoskeleton
Definition
Benefit-great protection
Limitations-heavy, must molt
Term
What is the green gland of the crayfish
Definition
filters out waste of crayfish
Term
How do spiders breathe?
Definition
book lung
trachea
Term
How do insects breathe?
Definition
trachea
spirades
Term
Three roles of social honey bees
Definition
Queen-fed royal jelly, huge fertilized eggs, unfertilized egg
Worker-sterile females, build, maintain hive, feed queen, collect nectar, make honey
Drone-fertile male, breed queen
Term
Antenna
Definition
taste, touch, some balance
Term
naiad
Definition
aquatic insect, larvae w/ gills
Term
gastric ceca
Definition
produces many digestive enzymes
Term
spiracle
Definition
small opening on side of body for breathing
Term
malpighian tube
Definition
excretory organs in many insects
Term
molting
Definition
shedding exoskeleton
Term
chrysalis
Definition
pupa stage of butterfly (cacoon)
Term
ovispositor
Definition
deposits eggs in insects
Term
metamorphosis
Definition
stages of change
Term
carapace
Definition
exoskeleton of the crayfish (cephalothorax)
Term
nymph
Definition
wingless, hopping stage of incomplete metamorphosis
Term
labium
Definition
lower mouth part, plate-like jaw for eating plants
Term
tympanum
Definition
hearing
Term
biological control
Definition
introducing one natural predator to control (eat) one unwanted animal
Term
Identify orders of insects and list 2 insects found in each order
Definition
Coleoptera-beetles (shiny wings)
Diptera-flys, mosquitoes (2 wings)
Hymenoptera-bees (4 wings)
lepidoptera-moths, butterflies (scaley wings)
orthoptera-grasshoppers, crickets (straight wings)
Term
Process of molting
Definition
shedding exoskeleton
hormones control it
new one starts making under old and pushes the old off
Term
What are pheromones
Definition
chemicals secreted to produce a mate
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