Spider Facts

Use these facts to answer your spider quiz

 Spiders have 8 legs.

Spiders come in many sizes and colors.

 

Spiders have 2 body parts, a cephelothorax and an abdomen.

 

Spiders spin a silky web using an organ called a spinneret.  It is in the spider’s abdomen.

 Sydney Brown Trapdoor Spider

Spiders do not have an internal skeleton.  They have an exoskeleton (it is like very hard skin).

 

Spiders see using many simple eyes.

 

Some spiders have a poisonous bite.

 

Spiders are arachnids; they are not insects.

Spiders hatch from eggs.

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