Spider Voc.
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- arachnid
- an animal with no backbone, eight legs, and a body that has two parts
- types of webs
- orb webs, funnel webs, triangle webs, sheet webs, and cobweb
- spinnerets
- the part of the spider's body that produces threads of silk
- drag line
- a line of silk the spider releases when walking; it can follow this line back to its orginal destination
- fang
- a long tooth, pointed at the end
- types of arachnids
- spiders, ticks, scorpions, ticks and mites
- spider web
- where most spiders trap their food
- ballooning
- a method of traveling used by spiderlings; the breeze carries them from place to place
- egg sac
- where spider eggs are protected
- venom
- the poison that spiders inject into their prey to paralyze them
- poisonous spiders
- black widow and brown recluse
- silk
- shiny, soft threads made by some insects to make webs, traps, egg sacs, and nests, for wrapping up insects, and to use as draglines
- eight
- the number of legs and eyes most spiders have
- spider food
- insects and other small animals
- web
- a network of fine threads that a spider spins
- male spiders
- usually smaller than the females
- types of spiders
- web builders and wandering spiders
- molt
- spiders shed their skin as they grow
- spiderling
- a baby spider
- abdomen
- the part of the spiders body that holds the stomach