Why is a grasshopper classified as an insect?

Answer 1

Grasshoppers are classified as part of the animal kingdom, because they posses general characteristics that define this Kingdom.

Animals have several characteristics that set them apart from other living things. Animals are multi-cellular where these cells are non-rigid (as in plants) and contain complex structures, and are enclosed within membranes, which separates them from bacteria and most protists. They generally digest food in an internal chamber, which separates them from plants and algae. They can move around under their own power, if only at certain life stages.

Answer 2

because they eat your left over garbage....and they are a pest

Answer 3

They are eukaryotic, multicellular organisms that are heterotrophs; just like all the animals that make up the kingdom.

Answer 4

All members of the phylum Arthropoda have an exoskeleton and six legs. Grasshoppers meet both of these conditions, hence their position in the phylum.

Answer 5

That's just it a grasshopper isn't an animal its an insect. I'm not all that sure I'm only 13!

Answer 6

It has jointed legs and it's a invertebrate

Answer 7

A grasshopper is an insect because it has 6 legs. It also has a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. It also has antennas.

Answer 8

Yes, of course. All insects are animals.

Answer 9

it has an exoskeleton