Man Vocabulary
This term describes the specific environments where plants and animals live and thrive.
What is a habitat?
The name for the feelers on an insect’s head, which help them gather information about their surroundings.
What are antennae?
Insects live in every habitat on Earth, except this one.
What is the ocean?
Even though they have multiple legs, spiders are not classified as these.
What are insects?
If an insect is described as solitary, this is what it means.
What is "it lives alone"?
These small animals have six legs and three main body parts.
What are insects?
If an insect lives alone, it is described as this.
What is solitary?
Unlike insects, spiders have this many legs.
What is eight?
Insects use these body parts to smell and feel.
What are antennae?
Social insects work together for these three main reasons.
What are "finding food, raising young, and having specialized jobs"?
This term describes insects that live together in organized communities.
What is social?
This term means working together for the good of everyone.
What is cooperation?
Unlike humans, insects do not have their skeletons inside their bodies. Instead, they have this.
What is an exoskeleton?
A complete metamorphosis has this many stages.
What is four?
The process by which insects shed old feathers, hair, skin, or shells to make way for new growth.
What is molting?
The opposite of a friend; another word for an enemy.
What is a foe?
These two types of insects are social and not solitary.
What are honeybees and paper wasps?
When people spray pesticides or cut down insect habitats, they are not doing this.
What is helping insects?
This is the transformation an insect undergoes from egg to larva, to pupa, to adult.
What is metamorphosis?
This is causing a large amount of damage or harm.
what is destructive
In social insect colonies, these special members lay eggs.
What are queens?
Crickets do not communicate by blinking lights. These insects do.
What are fireflies?