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How do you call the egg-laying female in a colony of bees or ants?
queen
How do you call animals without backbones?
invertebrates
How do you call the fin at the top part of a fish?
dorsal
Which is the largest known fish?
whale shark
Which is the substance that composes the exoskeleton of the arthropod?
chitin
How do you call an immature insect that lacks wings?
nymph
How do you call the fin at the rear part of a fish?
caudal
What is the W-shaped bands in which a fish's muscles are arranged?
myomeres
bony and cartilaginous
How do you call the sperm-containing fluid produced by a male fish?
milt
How do you call the vanelike projections from the front of the gill that protects them by straining debris from the water?
gill rackers
How do you call the organ that is on each side of the fish's head and allow the fish to extract oxygen from water?
gills
Which part of the insect has the wings attached to it?
thorax
How do you call the bony plates embedded in a fish's skin that act as a protective covering?
scales
Which are the two cartilaginous fish that lack jaws?
lamprey and hagfish
Which order have wings covered with tiny scales?
lepidoptera
What is defined as any insect with piercing-sucking mouthparts and a half-wing design?
bug
What organ allow fish to sense faint vibrations and pressure changes in water?
lateral line
Which order have hard, shell-like forewings?
coleoptera
How do you call the gill cover on each side of a fish head?
operculum
Which order includes the most common social insects?
hymenoptera
Which order includes pestilent insects such as flies, mosquitoes, and gnats?
diptera
Which order have toothlike projections on their mouthparts?
odonata
Which part of the insect's body contains the heart and the majority of the systems?
abdomen
Which order contains the true bugs?
hemiptera