Terminology for Exam 3

Question 1

Which spiders are the primitive spiders?

Answer 1

Trapdoor spiders, tarantula, and purse web spiders

Question 2

Which spider is a sit and wait?

Answer 2

Thomisidae

Question 3

Hunting Spiders?

Answer 3

Pisauridae, Lycosidae, Salticidae, and European water spider

Question 4

Web building spiders?

Answer 4

Linyphiidae, Agelenidae, Theridiidae, Araneidae

Question 5

Glue Casting spiders?

Answer 5

Ogre faced spider, bolas spider, spitting spider

Question 6

Nocturnal

Answer 6

Active at night

Question 7

Diurnal

Answer 7

Active in the day

Question 8

Arboreal

Answer 8

They live in trees

Question 9

Cursorial

Answer 9

Ground dwelling

Question 10

Urticating hairs

Answer 10

Barbed hairs on a tarantula

Question 11

How do European water spiders breathe?

Answer 11

In an airbubble on their abdomen

Question 12

How do the EWS catch prey?

Answer 12

by picking up vibrations

Question 13

How do EWS get back to their plant after catching prey?

Answer 13

dragline

Question 14

What is a diving bell?

Answer 14

The airbubble on the abdomen of the European water spider

Question 15

Scopulae

Answer 15

hairs on a spider

Question 16

Dragline

Answer 16

Line left behind for safety

Question 17

Swathing silk

Answer 17

The silk used to wrap prey

Question 18

Funnel Web

Answer 18

Agelenidae

Question 19

Sheet Web

Answer 19

Linyphiidae

Question 20

Cobweb

Answer 20

Theridiidae

Question 21

Orb Web

Answer 21

Araneidae

Question 22

Instinct

Answer 22

Genetic

Question 23

Learned

Answer 23

Perfected

Question 24

How long does orb web construction take?

Answer 24

Less than an hour

Question 25

Hub

Answer 25

Middle where spider sits

Question 26

Radial Threads

Answer 26

Silk strands that connect everything together

Question 27

Free zone

Answer 27

open area next to the hub where they can catch prey on other side of the web

Question 28

Sticky Spiral

Answer 28

Lines going through the web

Question 29

Frame thread

Answer 29

holds structure and sends pieces to hold in place

Question 30

How do spiders recycle their web?

Answer 30

They eat it to observe the protein back

Question 31

What scientist did drug webs?

Answer 31

Peter witt

Question 32

What is stabilimentum?

Answer 32

The structure of the web

Question 33

Functions of stabilimentum?

Answer 33

reflect UV light
drinking water
help hide spider or egg sac
stabilizing the web
protection from over heating

Question 34

What spider has specialized venom?

Answer 34

Spitting spider

Question 35

Mutalism

Answer 35

two positives

Question 36

parasitism

Answer 36

negative host, positive symbiont

Question 37

commensalism

Answer 37

no effect on host, positive symbiont

Question 38

Coevolution

Answer 38

long term adjustment of one species to another

Question 39

Camouflage

Answer 39

crypsis, solitary, taste good

Question 40

Warning coloration

Answer 40

Aposematic, toxic, groups

Question 41

What colors are used as warning

Answer 41

red, orange, yellow, black

Question 42

Examples of morphological defense

Answer 42

spines, patterns, thorns, bark

Question 43

What animals produce their own toxins?

Answer 43

Snakes, scorpions, bees, wasps

Question 44

Primary plant compounds

Answer 44

Directly involved in growth

Question 45

Secondary plant compounds

Answer 45

Not essential to plant, but important

Question 46

Henry Bates Mimicry

Answer 46

Taste resembling the non tasty

Question 47

Fritz Muller Mimicry

Answer 47

Everyone is toxic