Unit I- GLOSSARY

1. arthropod—an invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda with a segmented body, jointed limbs, and usually with a hard exoskeleton and undergoes moltings.
2. diurnal—active during the day.
3. endangered—species in danger of extinction or extirpation if the deleterious factors affecting their populations continue to operate.
4. gait—a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
5. impermeable—impassable.
6. larva (plural: larvae)—the immature, wingless, eating stage of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis.
7. mammalogist—a scientist who studies mammals.
8. nocturnal—active at night.
9. register—a precise superimposition of one track on another.
10. scat—animal excrement.
11. silica—a form of silicon that occurs as quartz sand in Florida scrub.
12. stride—the act of progressive movement completed when all feet are returned to the same position as at the beginning.
13. threatened—a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.