arthropod adventure!
Objective: Learn about Arthropods
Rachel Nolte, Guzman 7
This is nothing to joke about!
Two crayfish were talking in a bar. One says,"How'd you get on tonight?" His fishy friend grins and says,"I pulled a muscle."
What is an arthropod?
The largest phylum of the animal Kingdom, containing several million species. Arthropods are characterised by a rigid external skeleton, paired and jointed legs and a haemocoel. The phylum arthropoda includes the major classes insecta, crustacea, Myriapodia and arachnida.
High Quality Arthropods
Grasshopper Food Web
The grasshopper would be a primary consumer, the producer being the plant. The grasshoppers are being consumed by mice and birds.
Food For Thought
Ancestral arthropods were the first land animals.
Arthropods are a highly successful group of animals—they account for over three quarters of all currently known living and fossil organisms.
When arthropods grow, they must molt their exoskeleton.