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Animal Behavior - Pill Bug Lab Background

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Ottawa High School Curriculum 2019 Biology textbook McDougal Littell ed 2008
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Question 1
1.

Last Name First Name

Question 2
2.

Class Period

Question 3
3.

Select the correct "Family" scientific classication for pill bugs.

Question 4
4.

Pill bugs are the only Crustacea animal that lives on land.

Question 5
5.

Provide one example given in your background reading of another species that belong to Crustacea. Type only one example and be sure to spell it correctly to receive credit.

Question 6
6.

Pill bugs use their ___________ to breathe.

Question 7
7.

Select the one attribute that isn't a part of a pill bugs preferred habitat.

Question 8
8.

Pillbugs have two parts: head and abdomen.

Question 9
9.

Select the correct appendages that are located on the head of a pill bug.

Question 10
10.

The pill bug's thorax has __________ scaly segments, each containing _____ pair of legs.

Question 11
11.

The life cycle of a pill bug includes complete metamorphosis.

Question 12
12.

About how many times with a pill bug molt during growth and development to a full sized adult?

Question 13
13.

Isopods eat lots of things, including decaying vegetation. This makes them very important in the cycling of matter in ecosystems.

Question 14
14.

The average life span for a pill bug is.....

Question 15
15.

Pill bugs are a food source for a lot of invetebrates and vertebrate animals. This makes them very important in an ecosystem's food web.

Question 16
16.

Select the statement that is incorrect about pill bugs.

Question 17
17.

Female pill bugs can lay as many as _______________ eggs at one time.

Question 18
18.

Baby pill bugs are cared for by their mother for about ___________ before they go off on their own.

Question 19
19.

Select the color that best represents baby pill bugs.

Question 20
20.

Examine one of your pill bugs using the hand microscope. Look for copulatory organs located on the first 2 appendages of the abdomen. If you have them, then your pill bug would be .....

Question 21
21.

Examine one of your pill bugs using the hand microscope.
If there was a brood pouch located under the thorax, then your pill bug would be ......

Question 22
22.

Pill bugs and sow bugs are different in the way that they react to a threat. Pill bugs ___________________ and Sow Bugs _____________________.

Question 23
23.

Based on the difference in escape behavior in the previous question, determine whether you have a pill bug or sow bug for a specimen in this lab.