Insects and Arthropods

Phylum Arthropoda has the ______________________________ species of any animal phylum.

• Least

• Most

• Best

• Worst

The ______________________________ class is the largest class within the Adthropoda phylum.

• Arthropod

• Insect

• Octopusia

• Squidian

There are over a ______________________________ identified species of insects.

• Trillion

• Hundred

• Thousand

• Million

Arthropods serve as pollinators, decomposers, crop eaters, disease carriers, and ______________________________.

• Parasites

• Disease

• pollinator's friends

• Carriers

Classes of arthropods include all of the following EXCEPT:

• Invertebrata

• Arachnida

• Crustacea

• Insecta

Insects have all of the following segments EXCEPT:

• head

• abdomen

• thorax

• tail

Lobsters, crabs, and shrimp are all arthropods of the class _______________.

• insecta

• arachnida

• crustacea

• reptilia

Which of the following are the main differences between arachnids and insects? (Check all that apply)

• number of body segments

• what they eat

• number of legs

• size

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which of the following are defense mechanisms used by arthropods for protection?

• living together in large numbers

• stingers

• pincers

• all of these

What role do bees, butterflies and other insects play for green plants?

• predators

• pollinators

• prey

• puppets

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2