 Instructions:
After reading the poem on the internet site go to each spider website to find the
answers to the questions. Write your answers on the worksheet, you do not need to answer
in complete sentences. Turn the worksheet in to your teacher. |
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Site #1: University of Florida's Featured
Creature 1. Jumping spiders, or salticids, get their name from their super jumping ability. What does this ability do for them? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What is unusual about the Jumping Spiders sense of sight? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What happens when a person is bitten by a Jumping Spider? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Do Jumping Spiders make cobwebs? Why or why not? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Site #2: Tree of Life http://www.tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/arachnida/araneae/salticidae/disguise.html 1. Look at the pictures of various Jumping Spiders that look like other organisms. Why do you think these spiders look lilke other organisms? ___________________________________________________________________________________
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