Tarantula Quiz 🧠

📚 What you learned about tarantulas

1. What kind of animal is a tarantula?✅ An arachnidTarantulas are arachnids, like spiders and scorpions, not insects.
2. How many legs does a tarantula have?✅ EightAs an arachnid, a tarantula always has eight legs.
3. What do pet tarantulas mostly eat?✅ A few insects each weekTarantulas are hunters that eat insects like crickets.
4. Which tarantulas usually live the longest?✅ FemalesFemale tarantulas can live more than 20 years, longer than most dogs.
5. How does a tarantula grow bigger?✅ It molts, shedding its old skinA tarantula's skeleton is on the outside, so it molts to grow.
6. What is the best way to enjoy a pet tarantula?✅ Watch it, don't hold itTarantulas are a watch, don't handle pet, since holding stresses them.
7. How might a tarantula protect itself when bothered?✅ It flicks tiny itchy hairsMany tarantulas flick tiny itchy hairs at anything that bothers them.
8. Where is a tarantula's skeleton?✅ On the outside of its bodyA tarantula's skeleton is on the outside, called an exoskeleton.

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