Life Cycles
What Makes an Insect?
Vocabulary
Busy Bees
Ant Wars
100
The first stage of an insects life
Egg
100
The largest group of animals on the planet
Insects
100
Habitat
Where animals live
100
She leads the colony and is the mother of the hive
Queen Bee
100
She leads the colony and is their mother
Ant Queen
200
The second stage of an insect life
Larva
200
Insects can be found everywhere except:
The Ocean
200
Social
Animals that live and work together
200
Name a job worker bees do
Scouting
Foraging Nectar
Guards
Attending the Queen
Caring for young
Building the Hive
200
Name a job worker ants do
Scouting
Foraging for food
Guards
Soldier
Attendants to the queen
Caring for the young
Digging tunnels
Storing food and feeding workers
300
The third stage of an insect life, when they go through a complete change
Pupa
300
How many legs does an insect have?
6
300
Antennae
Feelers on an insect's head
300
How do bees communicate with each other, particularly to find flowers and food?
Waggle dance (figure 8)
300
Where young ants are cared for until they're grown
Nursery
400
The third stage of an insects life, where they look like small versions of the adults
Nymph
400
The three sections of an insect are:
Head
Thorax
Abdomen
400
Exoskeleton
Insect armor
400
A wasps' nest is made of:
Chewed up wood, dirt, and spit.
400
Ants use this body part to communicate through touch and smell
Antennae
500
What is complete metamorphosis?
When an insect completely changes between a child to adult
500
What is the hard armor shell that protects an insect?
Exoskeleton
500
Molt
Animals shedding their exoskeleton, revealing fresh armor underneath
500
These boy bees have one job, to help the queen lay eggs.
Drones
500
These insects live in mounds and devour wood.
Termites