Across
- 4. : an organ in a spider in which several thin sheets of tissue filled with blood vessel are stacked like pages in a book
- 7. : a medicine that deactivates venom
- 9. : a tiny opening in an insects abdomen through which air enters the body
- 10. : a skin infection of animals causes by mites
- 13. : an external skeleton. The strong lightweight skeleton made primarily of protein and chitin that provides an arthropod with protection
- 14. : the process of arranging animals or other things into groups according to their similarities
- 16. : the change in form that occurs during the life of an insect. Can be complete or incomplete.
- 17. : an animal with a background
- 20. : a long moveable structure on the head of an invertebrate used to feel, taste, smell, or hear
- 21. : sensitive hairs responsible for a spider’s sense of touch
- 22. : the special tube like structure in a sider that excretes liquid silk when pressure is applied
Down
- 1. : in spiders, an organ that produces silk
- 2. : an animal that is active at night
- 3. : an arthropod with two distinct body regions, eight legs, simple eyes, no wings, a book lung. Examples include spiders, scorpions, ticks, and mites
- 5. : the method by which young spiders sail through the air on silk strands that carry them from their place of birth to new homes
- 6. : a tough material that helps make up an arthropod external skeleton
- 8. : a skin infection causes by mites that affects humans
- 11. : a scientists who studies insects
- 12. : a body region of a spider or crustacean, like a head and thorax combined
- 15. : an animal without a backbone
- 18. : an insect’s breathing tube through which air travels
- 19. : an invertebrate that has an external skeleton jointed appendages and a segmented body
