Cricket Anatomy
Food Web
Experiments
Life Cycle
Cricket Behavior
100
This part of the body helps crickets feel their surroundings. They use these to sense danger and find food.
What is their antennae?
100
All energy starts from this.
What is the sun?
100
Crickets prefer light or dark? Why?
Dark, so that they can hide from predators.
100
This is the first stage of a cricket's life cycle.
What is egg?
100
These are the only crickets that make noises.
What are males?
200
Crickets have two pairs of these. Only the males use them to make noises.
What are wings?
200
When one animal eats another, it is getting this from that animal.
What is energy?
200
Crickets prefer hot or cold? How do you know?
Crickets prefer warm or hot environments. They only come out in the spring or summer.
200
This is the second stage of a cricket's life cycle.
What is a nymph?
200
TRUE OR FALSE: Crickets can see very well.
False! They have poor vision. They mostly use smell and sound to communicate, and use their antennae to find things.
300
These are the three sections of a cricket's body.
What are head, thorax, and abdomen?
300
These plants make their own food by getting energy from the sun.
What are producers?
300
Crickets prefer wet or dry? Why?
Wet environments, so they can have a source of water.
300
This is the final stage of a cricket's life cycle.
What is an adult?
300
Crickets use these senses to communicate.
What are their senses of smell and hearing?
400
This is what females use to lay eggs.
What is an ovipositor?
400
These animals eat smaller animals to get their energy. A lion, a snake, or a shark are examples.
What are predators?
400
Crickets prefer this kind of habitat the most.
What is soil?
400
These are the things that adult crickets can do, but nymph crickets cannot.
What is mate and lay eggs, or chirp?
400
Crickets hide from birds or other predators in this way. It means to blend into the background.
What is camouflage?
500
Cricket ears are not on their head. They are actually in this place.
What is behind their knee?
500
These animals eat small insects or plants, and are eaten by large animals in the food web. Rabbits, mice, and small fish are examples.
What are prey?
500
These are all the things you would put in a cricket's habitat in order for it to survive as long as possible.
Grains, fruit, grass, soil, somewhere to hide, warmth, wetness or a source of water.
500
A cricket life cycle is an example of ______ metamorphosis. (complete or incomplete)
What is incomplete?
500
When female crickets hear a male cricket chirping, they come near. Why?
Male crickets attract female crickets in order to mate.
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