http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse A woodlouse is a crustacean with a rigid‚ segmented‚ long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs. Woodlice form the suborderOniscidea within the order Isopoda‚ with over 3‚000 known species. The woodlouse has a shell-like exoskeleton‚ which it must progressively shed as it grows. The moult takes place in two stages; the back half is lost first‚ followed two or three days later by the front. This method of moulting is different from that of most arthropods
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for each body segment‚ which makes for quicker transportation. Pill bugs also rely on a constant form of moisture because they dehydrate and dry out very easily‚ but have adapted the ability to absorb water vapor from their surrounding environment (PILLBUGS‚ www.northern.edu). Therefore‚ based on their lack of eyes and need for water‚ pill bugs generally tend to favor a darker‚ moist environment for an "optimal functioning" rate‚ however it is not completely "accepted" because pill bugs have been seen
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Student Name: Amaan Rushdi Lab Partner Name: Dylan Course: BIOL 123 Lab Instructor: Megan Grandinetti Sowbug behavior on environment -lab report What area does the sowbugs prefer to choose for their dwelling? Abstract By working with physical isopods‚ ordinarily known as pill bugs‚ sow bugs or roly- polies‚ we tried whether these sowbugs favored a dark spot to a light place. Included in the lab are a few outlines and tables sketching out our aftereffects of the test. We measured recurrence
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Chapter 10 - Vocabulary alist (adj.): tilted to one side articulate (adj.): able to speak and express oneself attributes (n.): characteristics; qualities of a person or thing bout (n.): fight corncribs (n.): A corncrib is a small structure used to store corn. crook (of his arm) (n.): The crook of your arm is the inside part of your arm where it bends at the elbow. erratically (adv.): strangely; differently than normal feeble (adj.): weak; frail gingerly (adv.): carefully; cautiously inconspicuous
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Wastewater Wastewater is any water that has been adversely affected in quality by anthropogenic influence. It comprises liquid waste discharged by domestic residences‚ commercial properties‚ industry‚ and/or agriculture and can encompass a wide range of potential contaminants and concentrations. In the most common usage‚ it refers to the municipal wastewater that contains a broad spectrum of contaminants resulting from the mixing of wastewaters from different sources. Sewage is correctly the
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nimal Defenses Animal AnimAl BehAvior t Animal Communication Animal Courtship Animal Defenses Animal Hunting and Feeding Animal Life in Groups Animal Migration Defenses ChristinA WilsDon Animal Animal Behavior: Animal Defenses Copyright 2009 by Infobase Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or by any information storage or retrieval systems‚
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A Glossary of Ecological Terms transpired by Craig Chalquist‚ PhD‚ ecopsychologist and author of Terrapsychology: Re-engaging the Soul of Place (2007) - See also "Mind and Environment: A Psychological Survey of Perspectives Literal‚ Wide‚ and Deep." - Never‚ no never‚ did Nature say one thing and Wisdom another. – Edmund Burke The glossary that follows assumes a definition of ecology--the study of interactions between organisms and their environment--much wider than what fits under the
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