Anatomy
This is the external skeleton that protects insects.
What is an exoskeleton?
This type of life cycle includes egg → nymph → adult.
What is incomplete metamorphosis
Insects have this type of circulatory system, meaning they have no veins or arteries.
What is an open circulatory system?
Surprisingly, this insect is able to recognize and remember human faces.
What is a honeybee?
This is the name for animals that do not have a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
Insects breathe through tiny tubes on their bodies called these.
What are spiracles?
This type includes egg → larva → pupa → adult.
What is complete metamorphosis
Instead of blood, insects’ organs are bathed in this fluid, a mix of blood and lymph.
What is hemolymph?
Insects belong to this phylum, which includes lobsters, crabs, spiders, and millipedes.
What are arthropods?
This insect can carry up to 300 times its own weight.
What is a bumblebee?
Insects have this many body segments.
What are three?
The stage in which an insect is inactive, transforming inside a case.
What is pupa/chrysalis?
Insects don’t have lungs. Instead, they breathe through these branching tubes.
What are tracheae?
All insects are arthropods, but not all arthropods are insects — give one non-insect arthropod.
What is spider, mite, crab, pill bug, etc.?
True or False: Being small puts insects at a disadvantage.
What is false?
The pair of jointed limbs on the thorax used for walking or jumping are called this.
What are legs?
The first stage of an insect’s life after hatching.
What is larva or nymph (depending on the cycle)?
These tiny openings on each body segment allow air to enter an insect’s body.
What are spiracles?
This insect can fly straight up, down, sideways, hover, and is one of the fastest, reaching speeds of up to 35 miles per hour.
What is a dragonfly?
Despite their small size, an ant can carry this many times its own body weight.
What is 20 (or more) times?
These are the sensory organs on an insect’s head used for smell and touch.
What are antennae?
In bees, this stage follows the egg and precedes the pupa.
What is larva?
These are the names of an insect's body segments.
What are head, thorax, abdomen?
This many insect species have been identified so far (give or take a few thousand)
What is 900,000?
True or false: Insects are animals.
What is true?