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Insects and Arachnids

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The knowledge or skill and animal is born with.....

a)

know-how

b)

instinct

c)

camouflage

d)

metamorphosis

2.

Insects and spiders are two examples of what?

a)

creepy-crawlies

b)

vertebrates

c)

arachnids

d)

arthropods

3.

An insect becomes an adult through the process of .....

a)

maturity

b)

growth

c)

metamorphosis

d)

hatching

4.

Vertebrates have backbones.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Invertebrates have backbones.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Spiders have which of the following?

a)

4 sets of legs

b)

two body sections

c)

no wings

d)

no antennas

e)

all of the above

7.

Insects have which of the following?

a)

3 sets of legs

b)

3 body sections

c)

some have wings

d)

antennas

e)

all of the above

8.

The tube like structure that some insects use to suck their food is called what?

a)

biting parts

b)

antennas

c)

drill bits

d)

proboscis

9.

The hard outer covering of an arthropod is called what?

a)

exoskeleton

b)

invertebrate

c)

vertebrate

d)

skeletal system

10.

What is the largest group of arthropods?

a)

spiders

b)

bees

c)

insects

d)

moths

11.

What do spiders use to hold their food while they envenomate it?

a)

hands

b)

pedipalps

c)

antenna

d)

abdomen

12.

The silk that spiders make to use for their webs comes from what?

a)

stingers

b)

pedipalps

c)

antenna

d)

spinnerets

13.

Where does an insects digestion occur?

a)

thorax

b)

abdomen

c)

head

d)

cephalothorax

14.

When an arthropods outgrows its exoskeleton it is.....

a)

being born

b)

escaping

c)

breaking out

d)

molting

15.

What are some ways that spiders get their food?

a)

hunting

b)

trapping

c)

fishing

d)

web building

e)

all of the above

16.

A spider's web is made of glue?

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Black Widow and Brown Recluse spiders are examples of non-venomous spiders.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Spiders are examples of arachnids.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

What is part A of the insect?

a)

Thorax

b)

Abdomen

c)

Head

d)

Cephlothorax

20.

What part of the insect is part B?

a)

Head

b)

Thorax

c)

Abdomen

d)

Cephlothorax

21.

What part of the insect is part C?

a)

Head

b)

thorax

c)

Abdomen

d)

Cephlothorax

22.

What is shown in this picture?

a)

complete metamorphosis

b)

incomplete metamorphosis

23.

What is shown in this picture?

a)

Complete metamorphosis

b)

incomplete metamorphosis

24.

What is part 2 of the spider

a)

head

b)

cephalothorax

c)

abdomen

d)

legs