What Makes an Insect?
Bees & Ants
Vocabulary
Glowing & Singing & Shining Armor
Friend or Foe?
100
The Largest Group of Animals on the Planet.
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100
She leads the hive of Bees or colony of Ants and is the mother of the workers.
Queen
100
What is the Difference between Social and Solitary Insects?
Social Insects Work and Live Together.
Solitary Insects Work and Live Alone.
100
The Part of the Firefly that Lights Up:
Lantern
100
A Name for Animals that Harm or Bother Humans:
Pests
200
Insects use these to See, Smell, and Communicate.
Antennae
200
Name One Job a Worker Bee Does and One Job a Worker Ant Does:
Bees: Scouting, Foraging Nectar, Guards, Attending the Queen, Caring for Young, Building the Hive
Ants: Scouting, Foraging for food, Guards, Soldier, Attendants to the Queen, Caring for the Young, Digging Tunnels, Storing Food and Feeding Workers
200
The Tendency for Animals to Change over Time to Better Survive their Environments.
Adapt
200
Why do Fireflies Flash their Lights?
To Attract Other Fireflies.
200
Name Something Humans Use that Insects Make:
Honey
Wax
Silk
Food
300
Three Characteristics of an Insect are:
Six Legs
Head, Thorax, Abdomen
Hard Exoskeleton
300
How Do Bees Tell Other Bees where they Found Nectar?
Waggle Dance
300
When the Last of a Species of Animals Die Off, and None Remain.
Extinction
300
How do Crickets and Grasshoppers "sing?"
Rubbing their Legs and Wings Together
300
Important Animals which Help Plants Produce New Seeds and Fruit by Passing Pollen Between them.
Pollinators
400
What is the Hard Outer Shell on an Insect Called?
Exoskeleton
400
This Insect Spends it's Summer Building a Nest out of Chewed Up Wood, Dirt, and Spit, and Abandons the Nest in the Winter.
Wasps
400
"Cold" Light Produced by Living Animals such as Fireflies.
Bioluminescence
400
These Insects Lay their Eggs Deep Underground, Which Emerge in Swarms 17 Years Later.
Cicadas
400
The Poison that Humans Spray on Crops Meant to Kill Pests but which Harms Other Animals as Well:
Pesticide
500
Name All Stages of Complete Metamorphosis:
Egg
Larvae
Pupa
Adult
500
These Insects Live in Mounds and Devour Wood.
Termites
500
A Scientist who Studies Insects
Entomologist
500
The Hard Shell on the Back of Beetles that Protect their Soft Wings and Helps them Fly:
Elytra
500
Animals that Eat Dead Things and Waste, Recycling it back to the Land.
Scavengers