Life Cycle
Body Parts
General
Caterpillar
Butterfly
100
Butterfly larva is called this.
What is caterpillar?
100
These help the butterfly move from place to place and provide camouflage.
What are wings?
100
The tool used in observations to make things look bigger
What is a hand lens?
100
This is what the caterpillar sheds when it grows and molts.
What is exoskeleton?
100
Butterflies drink this from flowers.
What is nectar?
200
The first stage of the butterfly's life.
What is egg?
200
This is how many legs an adult butterfly has.
What is six?
200
The three-segmented body, two antennae, and six legs show that the butterfly is one of these.
What is an insect?
200
This part helps the caterpillar spin silk.
What is spinneret?
200
This is the red liquid that may come from the chrysalis when the butterfly first emerges.
What is meconium?
300
In this stage a butterfly has its wings and can fly.
What is the adult stage?
300
The proboscis on a butterfly is used for this.
What is sipping nectar from flowers.
300
Egg, chick, hen is an example of this.
What is a life cycle?
300
The parts of the caterpillar that will become the legs of the butterfly are called this.
What is true legs?
300
A garden designed for butterflies would probably have many of these.
What are flowers?
400
Butterfly pupa is called this.
What is chrysalis?
400
The three segments of an adult butterfly's body.
What are head, thorax, abdomen?
400
This provides the caterpillar with the moisture it needs to survive.
What is food (or leaves)?
400
The caterpillar breathes in and out through this.
What is spiracles?
400
Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on this type of plant.
What is milkweed?
500
This describes the "change of form" from caterpillar to butterfly.
What is metamorphosis?
500
Butterflies taste with this.
What is legs (or feet)?
500
Butterflies hang upside down when it comes out its chrysalis for this reason.
What is to dry off and get blood into their abdomen and wings?
500
This is the formation the caterpillar hangs in just before it makes a chrysalis.
What is J-shape?
500
To continue the life cycle, the adult butterflies must do this.
What is lay eggs?
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