Unit 5: Assignment 4: Objective 5

Unit 5: Assignment 4: Objective 5

Use your notes and the textbook to answer the following questions.

Question 1 1 pts

Members of this class are land forms with somewhat flattened bodies that may contain from a few to 177 segments.

Class Chilopoda

Class Diplopoda

Class Insecta

Question 2 1 pts

They are carnivores and feed on cockroaches, and other insects and earthworms. They kill their prey with their poison claws and chew it with their mandibles.

Class Chilopoda

Class Diplopoda

Class Insecta

Question 3 1 pts

In this class, there are 3,000 species worldwide. Examples include Scutigera.

Class Chilopoda

Class Diplopoda

Class Insecta

Question 4 1 pts

Centipedes are in this class

Class Chilopoda

Class Insecta

Class Diplopoda

Question 5 1 pts

The class with “thousand feet”. They don’t really have 1000 feet though.

Class Diplopoda

Class Chilopoda

Class Insecta

Question 6 1 pts

millipedes are in this class

Class Diplopoda

Class Chilopoda

Class Insecta

Question 7 1 pts

In this class, they have cylindrical bodies that are made up of 25 to 100 segments. The thorax has 4 segments, each with 1 pair of legs. They have two clumps of simple eyes and a pair each of antennae, mandibles, and maxillae.

Class Diplopoda

Class Chilopoda

Class Insecta

Question 8 1 pts

Members of this class feed on decayed plant matter and are slow moving in comparison to centipedes.

Class Diplopoda

Class Chilopoda

Class Insecta

Question 9 1 pts

Many members of this class protect themselves from predation by secreting toxic or repellent from special glands called repugnatorial glands which are positioned along the sides of the body.

Class Diplopoda

Class Chilopoda

Class Insecta

Question 10 1 pts

In this class, some examples are Spirobolus and Julus. There are more than 10,000 species worldwide in this class.

Class Diplopoda

Class Chilopoda

Class Insecta

Question 11 1 pts

Insects are in this class.

Class Insecta

Class Diplopoda

Class Chilopoda

Question 12 1 pts

members of this class have these characteristics:

Body with distinct head, thorax, and abdomen. Pair of antennae, mouthparts are modified for different food habits, head of six fused segments, thorax of three segments, abdomen with variable number, usually 11 segments; thorax with two pairs of wings (sometimes 1 or 2 pairs) and three pairs of jointed legs;

Class Insecta

Class Diplopoda

Class Chilopoda

Question 13 1 pts

This class has an estimated 1.1 million species. Examples include Romalea (grasshoppers), Apis (honey bees)

Class Insecta

Class Diplopoda

Class Chilopoda

Question 14 1 pts

Most species of centipedes are harmless to humans, although many tropical centipedes are dangerous and can reach up to 30 cm (about 1 foot) long.

True

False

Question 15 1 pts

Insects differ from other arthropods in having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings on the thoracic region of the body. Some insects only have 1 pair of wings though.

True

False

Question 16 1 pts

Insects are found all around the world except in North America.

True

False

Question 17 1 pts

Insects are the most diverse of all the animals species in the world.

True

False