Arthropods Reading Quiz

Arthropod means:

• disease of the foot

• jointed leg

• insects

Arthropods have ______________ circulatory systems

• open

• circulating

• closed

An Arthropod's skeleton is

• outside it's body

• just like ours

• hard shelled

arthropods skeleton gives them the ability to

• move their feet

• have antennae

• move onto land

What is molting?

• when a bird lays eggs

• When an arthropod sheds it's exoskeleton

• When an arthropod changes form

Which of the following include the four groups of arthropods?

• Insects, bugs, arachnids, crustaceans

• Insects, Arachnids, Worms, Crustaceans

• Insects, Centipedes/Millipedes, Crustaceans, Arachnids

Crustaceans are the only arthropods that have

• hard outer shells

• two or three body segements

• two pairs of antennae

What is metamorphosis?

• stinging prey

• a process in which an animal’s body undergoes dramatic changes in form during its life cycle

• growing from a baby into an adult

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Spiders, mites, ticks, and scorpions are called:

• arachnids

• insects

• crustaceans

Millipedes have:

• a thousand legs

• more legs than any other arthropod

• venom they inject into their prey