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

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

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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.

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Pill bugs use their ___________ to breathe.

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

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Pillbugs have two parts: head and abdomen.

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

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

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The life cycle of a pill bug includes complete metamorphosis.

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

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

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

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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.

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Select the statement that is incorrect about pill bugs.

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

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

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Select the color that best represents baby pill bugs.

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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 .....

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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 ......

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

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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.