Across
- 5. hard, flexible crust. Exoskeleton. Lobsters and crabs are giants of the subphylum.
- 9. do not actually have 1,000 legs as their name implies, most only have about 100.
- 12. circulatory system with blood confined in hearts and muscularized blood vessels.
- 14. scavengers. They ingest moistened soil and mud containing decomposing material. Each can eat its own weight every 24 hours.
- 16. recognizable by their (usually five-point) radial symmetry, and include such well-known animals as starfish, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers, as well as the sea lilies or "stone lilies".
- 18. less than 2 mm long and the most numerous animals in aquatic habitats, perhaps even in the world.
- 20. have segments fused into a forebody and hindbody. land creatures include spiders, scorpions and ticks.
Down
- 1. have suckers at both ends. Most have sharp jaws and a blood sucking device. Doctors used them for at least 2,000 years.
- 2. centipede hides out in buildings where it hunts cockroaches, flies and other pests. mainly eat other insects and spiders.
- 3. most successful organisms on earth. greatest number of species, producing the most offspring, occupying the most habitats, and the capacity to exploit the greatest amounts and kinds of food. 4 major categories
- 4. a stage in the life cycle of a butterfly.
- 6. large, prey seizing pincers. Venom dispensing stinger. can live in cold places, such as Canada.
- 7. Only arthropod with a calcified shell protecting them from predators, drying winds, battering surf and strong currents.
- 8. have a flattened body, and all but two segments have a pair of walking legs. have between 15 and 177 pair of legs.
- 10. lungs are the main respiratory organ in most arachnids. small openings in the abdomen of the arachnid.
- 11. Among the arachnids, some of the smallest, most diverse, and most widely distributed.
- 13. larva feed on corn roots until the plants fall over. Causes a billion dollars a year in crop damage in America.
- 15. Insects get rid of waste material through small tubes connected to their midgut.
- 17. have a head, thorax and abdomen. The head has paired sensory antennae, and paired mouth parts. bite, chew, suck and puncture.
- 19. reinforced bristles on each side of the body of annelids.
