Anatomy
How many legs does an insect have?
What is 6?
What is 3 pairs of 2?
Define entomology
What is the scientific study of insects?
there are _____ insects for every human on earth
what is 200 million?
Name two bugs that are commonly mistaken for insects
what are ticks, spiders, centipedes, etc
What are the 3 main parts of the insect body?
What are the head, thorax, and abdomen?
what are the two insect wings called?
what is hind wing and fore wing?
insects comprise about _____ of the Earth's weight
What is 10%?
how can insects be pests?
what is eating plants, stinging, annoying, etc
What are 2 different types of mouths?
What are chewing, suckling/ siphoning, piercing- suckling, chewing- lapping, sponging?
What are 2 benefits of insects?
What are pollinators, medicine, dyes, predatorial insects, etc?
which insect can run 50 body lengths in one second?
What is a cockroach?
how can insects be beneficial?
what are pollinators, predatorial insects, etc
What are the 4 types of insect legs?
What are fossorial, nautatorial, saltatorial,raptorial?
What are the three stages of incomplete metamorphosis?
What is egg, nymph, adult?
Which insect can jump 130 times its own height?
What is a flea?
what is the purpose of fossorial legs on an insect?
what is digging?
Explain an exoskeleton
What is an outside layer that acts as a skeletal system?
What is Egg, larva, pupa, adult?
Which insect flaps its wings about 1 million times per hour
What is a flying mosquito?
Why is it important to be able to identify insects?
to know the difference between beneficial and pests, to identify threats, etc