Vocabulary
A living organism without a backbone
Invertebrate
This is the first stage of metamorphosis
What is egg?
Two strong jaws act like cutting blades of scissors. They move from side to side to cut, tear, and chew food.
What is chewing mouthpart?
This helps insects gather information about their surroundings
What is antenna?
What makes it harder for predators to eat the insect. It also protects internal organs
What is exoskeleton?
This word means "jointed foot"
Invertebrate that has jointed legs, an exoskeleton, and separate body sections
What is arthropod?
A small tube in an insect’s head that is used for sucking and drinking fluid.
This helps the insect judge distance and sense movement
What are eyes?
What is the ability of one organism to look like another organism. Some harmless insects mimic harmful ones?
What is mimicry?
An arthropod with three body sections and six legs
What is insect?
In this stage, the insect looks like a tiny adult
What is nymph?
Insects with this mouthpart use the proboscis to suck liquid. It pierces a plant leaf and sucks the plant’s liquid.
What is piercing-sucking mouthpart?
The insect has three pairs of these that help it move around
What are legs?
What is a coloring or pattern that hides an organism in its surroundings?
What is camouflage?
he external structure of an insect’s mouth
What is mouthpart?
A grasshopper goes through this type of metamorphosis
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
It is a flexible tube like a bendy straw that reaches deep into flowers to suck nectar.
What is siphoning mouthpart?
What is an organ that gathers information from the surroundings by using the senses?
What is sensory organ?
Wings and feet help protect insects by providing this to help it escape from predators
What is speed?
the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.
What is metamorphosis?
This is the stage when the larva covers itself with silk or hard covering. It does not eat, and it is busy growing separate body sections and wings.
he end of the proboscis is dull and rough. The insects spit liquid on their food to moisten it and soften it for the proboscis to pick the food up.
What is sponging mouthpart?
This is the portion of the body that contains the wings
What is thorax?
What is stinging and biting?