Invertebrates
Animals that have no backbone are called this.
What is an invertebrate?
Name the word for an arthropod with three body sections and six jointed legs.
What is an insect?
Tell what meta and morph mean.
What is change form?
Define camouflage and explain how it protects an insect.
What is a coloring or pattern that hides an organism from its surroundings?
Tell what a sensory organ does.
What is gather information from the insect's surroundings?
Tell what arthropod means.
What is jointed foot/leg?
Name the three main body sections of an insect.
What are the head, thorax, and abdomen?
Name the stages of complete metamorphosis.
Define mimicry and explain how it protects insects.
What is the ability of one organism to look like another organism so that harmless insects and appear like harmful ones.
Name the sensory organ that can detect odors, sense touch, detect sound vibrations, judge airspeed, sense temperature, and detect air movement.
What is antennae?
Name the hard outer covering of arthropods.
What is the exoskeloton?
Name the three main structures on an insect's head.
What are the antennae, eyes, and mouth?
Name the stages of incomplete metamorphosis.
What are egg, nymph, and adult.
Tell how insect structures that release odors can protect insects.
What is causing the predator to spit out the bug because of a nasty odor?
The kind of eyes that most insects have.
What is compound eyes?
Name the place where two movable parts come together.
What is a joint?
Name the two structures that attach to the thorax.
What is the legs and the wings?
Name the stages that are the same in both complete metamorphosis and incomplete metamorphosis.
What are egg and adult?
Name four of the six ways insects protect themselves.
What are exoskeleton, camouflage, odors, mimicry, speed, stinging and biting.
Compound eyes are much better at doing these two things than human eyes.
What is detecting movement and seeing in all directions?
Name the word for when an arthropod sheds its exoskeleton.
What is molting?
Name the structure that some insects have attached at the end of their abdomen.
What is stinger?
Name the stages that are different in complete metamorphosis and incomplete metamorphosis.
What are larva, pupa, and nymph?
Name two ways that the exoskeleton protects insects.
What are it makes it harder for the predator to eat the insect and it protects the internal organs?
Explain the main difference of the structure of simple eyes and compound eyes.
What is one lens to see with versus many lenses to see with?