By Howie and Andren

What are Arthropods? Arthropods are animals with segmented bodies. Most of all the animals in the world are arthropods. You can find arthropods everywhere in water, land, up in trees, and sometimes underground. Most of the arthropods less than 1cm however some can even grow 3m long. Most of the common arthropods you can find are butterflies, flies, ants, bees, spiders, shrimp, and crab.

Facts Most of the arthropods have six, eight, or ten legs. People can’t live without arthropods, because arthropods are recyclers and decomposers. A lot of other animals eat arthropods to live, so the arthropods are critical to the food chain. Also other mammals and fish depend on the arthropods to survive like the blue whale eat on plankton shrimp and crab to survive. Most of the arthropods are insects, crustaceans, and arachnids.

Six Legs An example of a arthropod with six legs are insects They are the only arthropod capable of flying. Dragonflies are the most common and spectacular arthropod, they are capable of flying 64kph. Every year scientists discover thousands of new species of arthropods, they are mostly new kind of insects.

Dragonfly

Eight Legs An example of an arthropod with eight legs are spiders also known as Arachnids Spiders like the tarantula are the best known arachnid, and the second largest arthropod. Although a lot of arthropods live in water, scorpions, mites, and spiders are the most common arthropod you find at land

Spiders

Ten Legs Crustaceans are the arthropod with ten legs, most of them live in water like the crab, shrimp, and lobsters. But some of the other Crustaceans live on land like the woodlice. Crustaceans are one of the most smallest and biggest arthropods there are in the world.

Crustaceans

How are they Important? Arthropods are important because a lot of other animals feed on them even us humans sometimes. Whoever has eaten shrimp, crab, or lobster, you have eaten a arthropod before. A lot of other type of animals such as birds, fish, and reptiles depend on arthropods for their food.

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Bibliography Google Blobio.org Youtube.com

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