Chapt. 2, Spider Vocabulary Flashcards
1
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arachnids
A
an arthropod with two distinct body regions, eight legs, simple eyes, no wings and a book lung.
2
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cephalothorax
A
a body region of a spider or crustacean that is like a head and a thorax combined.
3
Q
setae
A
sensitive hairs responsible for a spider’s sense of touch.
4
Q
book lung
A
an organ in a spider in which several thin sheets of tissue filled with blood vessels are stacked like pages of a book.
5
Q
ballooning
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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
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spinneretes
A
the special tube-like structure in a spider that extracts liquid silk when pressure is applied.
