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CREEPY CRAWLIES – THE PHYLUM ARTHROPODA

READING ASSIGNMENTS	PAGES
GENERAL INFORMATION	460-461 SPECIALIZED REPRODUCTIVE CYCLES
SPECIFIC TO GROUP	669-676
INVERTABRATE REVIEW	466-451

QUESTIONS

1. Where do they live? What are examples of their habitat and food source?

2. How are these animals important to humans and the environment?

3. How are these animals unique?

4. How do they support their shape? Do they have a skeleton?

5. How do they get oxygen and get rid of Carbon Dioxide?

6. How do these animals reproduce? What is the life cycle like?

7. What is their nervous system like? Do they have specific sensory structures?

8. What type of circulatory system do these animals have?

9. What is their excretory system like? How do they eliminate the wastes we get rid of as urine?

10. How do these animals digest their food? Do they have a complete digestive system?

11. What are some examples of this group of animals?

12. What is metamorphosis?

13. What does arthropod mean?

14. How has flight and jointed appendages contributed to the success of the arthropods

15. What are the advantages and disadvantages of an exoskeleton?

16. Describe the following Classes of Arthropods:

- Chelicerates

- Crustaceans

- Uniramians

- Insects