Spiders vocabulary by Gail Gibbons

an animal that has eight legs and two body parts

• Arachnid
• Insects 
• Burrows 
• Ballooning 

an animal that has three body parts and six legs

• Arachnid 
• Burrows 
• Insects 
• Ballooning 

a hole in the ground made by an animal

• Ballooning 
• Burrows 
• Arachnid 
• Insect 

when spiders use their silk to travel through the air

• Scurries 
• Molting 
• Ballooning 
• Insects 

to shed hair, feathers, skin or a shell

• Ballooning 
• Scurries 
• Insect 
• Molting 

to move briskly

• Molting 
• Scurries 
• Ballooning 
• Insects 

can inject poison into another animal's body that is harmful

• Poisonous 
• Scurries 
• Weave 
• Webbing 

causing damage or harm

• Weave 
• Webbing 
• Harmful 
• Scurries 

to form by lacing together strands of material

• Weave 
• Harmful 
• Poisonous 
• Insect 

to make or form a web

• Insect 
• Webbing 
• Harmful 
• Poisonous