Elementary Insect Jeopardy

Insect Traits

1

All insects hatch from these.

What are eggs?

2

All insects have two of these attached to their heads.

What are antennae?

3

An insect has this many pairs of legs.

What are three?

4

Insects have this type of blood in their bodies and are known as (blank) blooded.

What is cold?

5

There are said to be this many millions of insect species on the Earth.

What is six to ten?

Body Parts

1

The top section of all insects is known as this.

What is the head?

2

All insects have this many parts to their bodies.

What is three?

3

Some insects have this at the end of their bodies that can cause great pain.

What is a stinger?

4

This is the back section of an insect that holds its digestve tract.

What is the abdomen?

5

An insects 6 legs are atteched to this body part.

What is a thorax?

Name That Insect!

1

I am around ¼ of an inch long and am yellow, orange or red with black spots on my wing covers.

What is a ladybug?

2

I am the most common of flies and am inactive at night.

What is a house fly?

3

I am found near water sources and the female of my kind like to bite humans.

What is a mosquito?

4

I migrate great distances in the winter, my wings are orange and yellow, and I have four stages in my development.

What is a monarch butterfly?

5

I look like a twig, eat stems and plants only at night, and have three stages in my development.

What is a stick bug?

Name That Insect 2!

1

I live in hills, logs or the cracks of sidewalks and have jaws that open sideways.

What is a ant?

2

I am a social insect who lives in hives and produces a tasty sticky substance.

What is a honey bee?

3

I eat only plants and I can hop, walk and even fly great distances.

What is a grasshopper?

4

I am very aggressive and build paper nests, stay away from my stinger!

What is a wasp?

5

I live in warm climates, eat other insects, and have a triangular shaped head.

What is a praying mantis?

Insect Facts

1

What is the name of the web spinner that many people think is an insect but it is not.

What is a spider?

2

Ants use chemical (blanks) to communicate with each other by leaving trails on the ground.

What are signals?

3

Bees, termites and ants live in these.

What are colonies?

4

When we discussed mosquitos we said that there are this many stages to its life cycle.

What are four?

5

When we difined an insect, we said that it belonged to this class.

What is an Anthropod?