Entomology Test/Facts

Mouth Parts

100

This mouth has a tube that inserts into a food source

Piercing-sucking

200

This mouth has finger-like palps on each side of the mouth

Chewing

300

this mouth uses tube but does not penetrate

siphoning 

400

This type of mouth cannot bite or chew, modified to sop up liquids.

sponging

500

Which of the following is responsible for the great adaptability of insects? 

a) high reproductivity

b) short lifespans and high reproductivity 

c) rapid mutations

d) short lifespans

b) short lifespans and high reproductivity

Test 1

100

When a pesticide moves away from he application site in water it is called... 

a) flow

b) leaching and runoff

c) leaching

d) runoff

b) leaching and runnoff

200

Which of these groups does NOT possess antennae?

a) arachnids

b)insects

c)centipede

d)crustaceans

a) arachnids

300

Honeybees use the 'waggle dance' to communicate the location of food close to the hive...

True or False

True

400

The word Arthropoda means: 

a) segmented body

b) hardened skin

c) jointed foot

d) none of these

c) jointed foot

500

All insects belong to the Class Athoropoda...

True or False

False

Test 2

100

The anterior spiracles normally....

a) inhale and exhale

b) inhale

c) exhale

b) inhale

200

Any small creature with more than four legs is a bug. 

True or False

False

300

A pesticide that moves away from the application site in the air is usually called...

a)none of these 

b) drift

c)smog

d) plume

b) drift

400

Most insects have a life cycle that lasts for: 

a) < 1 year

b) 2-3 years

c) 3-4 years 

d) 1-2 years

a) < 1 year

500

The class Arachnida includes all of the following...

a) ticks

b) fleas 

c) spiders

d) mites

b) fleas

Development

100

4 stages of metamorphosis (egg, larva, pupa, adult)

holometabolous

200

Only 3 stages of metamorphosis (egg, nymph, adult)

hemimetablous

300

Non-arthropod insects that do not go through specific changes to be an adult

ametabolous

400

Pesticides that absorb strongly to soil are ______ to move into groundwater.

a) less likely

b)neither less or more likely

c) more likely

a) less likely 

500

Which of these terms is NOT one of the two classifications given to plants and animals in danger of becoming extinct?

a) endangered

b) protected

c) threatened

d) threatened and protected

b) protected

Order

100

What order has a "straight wing?" 

Orthoptera

200

What is the order that half of the wing is stronger while the other half is not?

Hemiptera

300

What order has veins in the wing that look like nerves? 

Neuroptera

400

What order has a protective sheath on the wing?

Coleoptera

500

What order leaves scales on things they touch?

Lepidoptera