How much do you know about arthropods and taxonomy? An arthropod is any member of the phylum Arthropoda, the largest phylum in the animal kingdom, as it includes lobsters, crabs, spiders, and insects. Taxonomy is the scientific study of identifying and classifying groups of biological organisms or shared attributes. Organisms are assembled into taxa, and these groups are given a taxonomic rank. Don’t forget to take your certificate at the end of the quiz.
6
4
7
8
250 million years
100 million years
300 million years
400 million years
100,000
1,000,000
1,000,000,000
500,000,000
4
0
1
2
2
3
1
0
Gills
Book lungs
Diffusion
Nose
3
1
2
5
2
3
4
1
Attack
Dance
Crawl up to a ball
Distract the predator with its supersaturation
Carnivores
Herbivores
Scavengers
Predators
Under a rock or soil
In water
Plants
In the sky
4
2
6
8
People
Plants
Insects
Crustaceans
Gills
Book lungs
Nose
Diffusion
Water
Moist places
Dry places
Under a rock or in soil
Tail
Mouth
Anus
Claws
B and c
Animals
Plants
Parasites
All of the above
Flesh
Body fluids
Sperm
Organs
About 300,000
400
About 700,000
1
True
False