Scorpion Scientist

Lauren Esposito began loving spiders, scorpions and other small animals as a...

• baby

• child

• teenager

• adult

Lauren Esposito is a scientist who investigates...

• spiders

• snakes

• scorpions

• squid

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Match the following vocabulary words to their definitions.

• learn more about something

• data

• living & nonliving things in an area

• environment

• gather information using our 5 senses

• Investigate

• observations or measurements recorded in an investigation

• observe

Scientist Esposito ​ (a)   scorpions by looking at ​ (b)   from other scientists, like photos and field ​ (c)  

• investigates
• data
• notebooks.

Traits of what organism were compared with the traits of scorpions?

• sand spiders

• spitting spiders

• stretch spiders

• spider species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Scorpions are closely ​ (a)   to spiders and have some of the same traits.

• related
• connected
• linked

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Label each stage of a scorpion's life cycle.

a

b

c

d

Adult scorpion

Independent baby scorpions

Mother carrying babies

Young, immature scorpion

One similarity among spiders and scorpions are the number of...

• eyes

• legs

• tails

• stingers

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

​ (a)   have ​found almost ​ (b)   ​ (c)   of ​ (d)   .

• Scientists
• 2,000
• species
• scorpions

Even though scientists have found almost 2,000 species of scorpions, they have evidence that there are many more to discover.

• TRUE

• FALSE