9.1- Insects: Abundant Arthropods; 9.2- Insect Body Plan

Unlike vertebrates, arthropods have strong and lightweight outside skeletons called endoskeletons.

• true

• false- exoskeleton

An insect hatches from its egg as a larva when it undergoes incomplete metamorphosis.

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• false- complete

The world's greatest entomologist was Charles Darwin.

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• false- Jean-Henri Fabre

The type of eye that has multiple lenses and enables insects to see in several directions at the same time is a compound eye.

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• false

The only group of invertebrates that can fly are insects.

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• false

An arthropod has a closed system of circulation.

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• false- open

tiny opening that allows air to enter an insect's body. 

• spiracle

• maxilla

• labrum

An insect's lower lip. 

• labrum

• labium

• maxilla

An insect's upper lip. 

• labrum

• labium

• maxilla

An insect's side-to-side jaw 

• spiracle

• mandible

• maxilla

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