Basic Needs
Parts of a butterfly
Insects life cycle
Key Terms
Butterfly life cycle
100
Water, food, air, space, shelter, and comfortable temperature
What are the six basic needs of an animal?
100
These are the set of wings in the back of the butterfly.
What are the hind wings?
100
This adult lays the eggs for the insect.
What is the female adult?
100
This term means to grow inside of a pupa.
What is pupate, pupating, pupation?
100
This is what butterflies lay their eggs on.
What is a leaf?
200
Air, water, and food
What are the three basic needs of a plant?
200
This set of wings is in the front of the butterfly.
What are the fore wings?
200
This is what grows into the adult.
What is the larva?
200
This term means to shed the exoskeleton.
What is molt?
200
This is what a butterfly's larva is called.
What is a caterpillar?


300
Carbon Dioxide is released into the air by these.
What are animals?
300
This is the number of legs that a butterfly has.
What is six?
300
This is the hard shell in which the larva grows to become an adult.
What is the pupa?
300
This is a straw-like mouth used for eating.
What is a proboscis?
300
This is what a butterfly's pupa is called.
What is a chrysalis?
400
Oxygen is released into the air by these.
What are plants?
400
This is the segment of the butterfly that has the eyes and antennae.
What is the head?
400
These are the two stages a nymph replaces.
What are the larva and pupa?
400
The pair of these are used to help the butterfly "feel" their environment.
What are the antennae?
400
This is what a caterpillar does mostly.
What is eating?
500
Animals and plants rely on this for their basic needs.
What is their habitat?
500
These are used for seeing.
What are the eyes?
500
The nymph does this to become an adult.
What is molt?
500
This is an organism's environment.
What is a habitat?
500
This is what happens when a caterpillar gets too big.
What is shed their skin?
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