Zoology
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what day did God create the birds of the sky?
Day 5
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What do you call the study of insects?
Entomology
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Name a type of butterfly that migrates from the upper part of North America to central Mexico each year?
Monarch
Bonus 20 points if your team can tell me the amount of miles it flies without looking at your book
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a group of animals (insects) that live in close connection with each other
a colony
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name three main types of bees
solitary, social, parasitic
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What are the classifications of living things? Extra points for your team if you stand up and sing it to everyone
Domain Kingdom Phylum and Class
Order Family Genus Species
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How many body sections does an insect have AND name the sections.
3
head, thorax, abdomen
200
what do you call the little house built around a lepidoptera in the final instar stage? think before you answer, this may be a trick question
Butterfly - chrysalis
Moth - cocoon
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what type of insects do ants act as a shepherd to?
aphids
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what is another name for a bees stinger?
ovipositor
300
What is the name of both animals with a backbone and animals without a backbone?
Vertebrates and Invertebrates
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What are 2 things all adult insects have?
6 legs and an exoskeleton
300
Describe a butterfly's wings (at least 2 features)
clear, scales to make colors and patterns, 1 set of large and a set of smaller wings
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the order of insects with thin and soft wings like membranes (not covered in scales)
hymenoptera
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what type of bee feeds the larva
nurse bees
10 extra points if you can tell me what they feed them and for how long
400
How does the shape of a bird's wings help it to fly?
Fast moving air on the top of the wing pushes down with low pressure while the slower moving air pushes up on the underside
400
Explain how a mosquito gets your blood (Hint: there are two blue words, which are body parts, in this answer)
uses it's stylet to stab a hole and then inserts it's proboscis to suck out the blood
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How do termites digest cellulose in wood?
microscopic creatures called flagellates in their stomachs
400
What is usually a worker bee's final job?
scout or gatherer bee
500
The process of putting animals into groups
Taxonomy
500
Mrs. Emma told a story about an insect helping a patient not lose his leg, what was the insect?
Maggots
500
The stages of metamorphosis for a lepidoptera
egg, larva, pupa, adult
500
a thin "stalk" that connects the abdomen to the thorax on insects in the hymenoptera order
petiole
wasp waist
500
tell me about the bee's dances. who dances, who watches the dance and what they mean
scouts dance for gatherers to tell them where the flowers are. round or circular dance if flower is within 50 yards. waggle dance - tells which direction to fly, how far to fly, and the liveliness tells flower's potential as a food source
600
Who was the first known man to try to draw and describe every bird in America?
John James Audobon
600
tell me how an insect could help solve a crime?
blowflies are attracted to the odor released by a dead body. they will deposit eggs within minutes after death occurred. The scientist study the blowflies to determine time of death.
600
what order is a butterfly in? (full name)
Lepidoptera
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how are termites different than ants? Hint: wing, antennae, body and class
termites have 4 wings that are the same size,
ants have wasp waist, termites do not
ant-bent antennae, wasp- straight
termites in isoptera
600
what do bees collect from buds of trees to help them make their hives stronger
propolis