Grasshopper Organ

Systems
What is a grasshopper?

A grasshopper is an arthropod. It has

Jointed appendages
A segmented body
An exoskeleton
Skeleton
The grasshopper has
a hard exoskeleton.
That means its
skeleton is located
on the outside of its
body, not internally
like ours. This
skeleton is made of
chitin, a
carbohydrate.
 The mouth

The mouthparts are

a set of movable
jaws that let the
grasshopper bite and
tear its food.
Can tear and chew
larger food until
particles are small
enough to ingest.
The mouth
Mandibles - two heavy
blackish jaws with teeth along
the inner margin. The
mandibles move up and
down.
Maxillae - two smaller jaws
that move side to side
Labium - the lower lip
Palp - maxillary and labial
palps are sensory
appendages
Digestive System

Video: https://youtu.be/XloEMjEKGQU
 Digestive
System
These are the parts of
the digestive system :
Mouth
Esophagus
Crop
Stomach
Intestine
Chewed food is stored in
the crop, digested in the
stomach, and absorbed
in the intestine.
Respiratory System

Video: https://youtu.be/quwhcgkVO3c
Respiratory System
Small holes on the side of the body are
called spiracles, each hole leads to a
large tube called a trachea. The large
tubes divide into small tubes that branch
out to all the cells of the body. This
system of tubes carries oxygen to the
cells and takes away the carbon dioxide.
Air sacs attached to the tracheae are
inflated or deflated by pumping motions
of the insects body.
Respiratory System

The grasshopper does not have a lung. How

then does it breathe?
Air enters the spiracles and as the abdomen
expands and contracts, fresh air moves in and
used air moves out.
The air enters the cells directly and is not
transferred to the blood- thats why their blood
is yellow, not red- it contains no hemoglobin!
Respiratory System

Oxygen diffuses from the moist lining of the

sacs into the body fluids surrounding the sacs.
Waste gas, Carbon dioxide, diffuses from the
fluids into the air sacs, and is exhaled into the
external environment through the spiracles.
Circulatory System

Video: https://youtu.be/0eh17UjJoag
Circulatory System
The grasshoppers
circulatory system is
open- that means that it
does have a heart, but
the heart is more of a
muscular tube that
collects the blood and
forces it to the front of
the body. The blood
freely flows throughout
the grasshopper
Circulatory System
Open circulatory system:
circuit of tubes and
vessels is incomplete.
Circulating fluid can pour
out of the tubes into the
body cavity.
This forms pools of blood
that bathe the animals
tissues and deliver
nutrients and oxygen to
its cells.
Circulatory System
Pumping pressure
eventually brings the
pooled blood back into
tubes that return it to the
heart.
In grasshoppers, the large
7-chambered heart
pumps in blood into
large cavities among the
body tissues.
Cool fact

The grasshopper does not use its brain

to walk or jump! It does that without a
brain.
The brain is used to control the mouth
and to send sensory information to the
rest of the body.