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1
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What are the five common characteristics of arthropods?

A

exoskeletons

Jointed legs

segmented bodies in distinct body regions

They shed their exoskeleton called molting

They have an open system of circulation with or without a heart

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Name one of Fabre’s contributions to the study of insects

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He observed facts and therefore did not agree with Darwin

He discovered the importance of instinct in insects and described how these creatures behave together

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3
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What is the term for a zoologist to studies in sec

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Entomologist

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List the three distinct body regions of an insect

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Head thorax and abdomen

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5
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List the four stages of complete metamorphosis

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Egg
Larva
pupa
adult

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6
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What is an immature form of an insect that resembles the adult but has different body proportions and like

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Nymph

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7
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How does an arthropod’s open system of circulation compare to the closed circulatory system found in other animals and people?

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Yellow/green/clear blood

Heart pumps blood into a large artery, bathing organs in blood. Blood goes directly back to the heart w/o veins.

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8
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What is the main difference between a simple and a compound eye

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A simple Eye has only one lens; a compound Eye has multiple lenses

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9
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What are in insect sensory

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Send ills

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10
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Name the upper lip of an insect

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Labrum

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11
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What is the term for an insects side to side Joss

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Mandibles

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12
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Define abdomen as it pertains to an insect

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The hindmost part of an insect’s body

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13
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How may an insects thorax be distinguished from its abdomen?

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The easiest way to distinguish between the thorax and abdomen is to notice the attachment of the legs. The legs attach only to the thorax; the abdomen begins after the last pair of legs.

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14
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What is the sharp pointed Oregon the females of some species of insects used to dig into the ground to lay eggs?

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Ovipositor

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15
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List of the five classes of arthropods

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Insects
crustaceans
arachnids
Centipedes
millipedes
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16
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Name the largest order of insects

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Beetles

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17
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What is the term for the hard for wings that fit closely over a Beetle body like a shell?

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Elytra

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18
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Name thesnout beetle known for attacking the cotton plant

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The Boll weevil

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19
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Which Beetle has two sets of eyes one side above the water and another set below?

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The Whirligig beetle.

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20
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Which beetle stores air beneath it’s forewings?

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Diving beetle

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21
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What is a bug?

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And insect with a special type of piercing sucking mouth parts

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22
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What insect lives underground for 13 or 17 years before emerging as an adult?

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Cicada

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23
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What is the term for the sharp lance like structures a mosquito uses to puncture the skin of an animal or a person?

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Stylets

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24
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Name three diseases carried by mosquitoes

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Yellow fever
malaria
Virus causing Encephalitis

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25
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Which insect me carry the microbes responsible for dysentery and typhoid fever

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Housefly

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26
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How can a crane fly be distinguished from

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It is three times as big and does not bite.

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27
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Which flies may be the worst pass around a pond?

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Black flies or Buffalo gnats

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28
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Which order do crickets, grasshoppers, Katiedid, locusts, mantises, and cockroaches belong?

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Orthoptera

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29
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What name are short one grasshoppers now

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Locusts

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30
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What is the term for the musical instrument of grasshoppers, crickets and katydids?

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Stridulatory organs

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31
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What order includes dragonflies and damselflies?

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Odonata

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32
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Give two ways in which dragonflies and damselflies differ

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Damselfly Eyes are farther apart and they hold their wings upward and backward

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33
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Name to carnivorous insects belonging to the order Neuroptera

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Ant lion

Lacewing

34
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Listen explain three characteristics of cockroaches that allow them to survive in almost any environment

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It cleans and grooms to protect the waterproof coating on its exoskeleton

They are omnivores and eat almost anything

They are nocturnal and hide during the day

35
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Which insect order contains the most common social insects?

A

Hymenoptera

36
Q

What is the defense mechanism that a worker bee carries?

A

Stinger

37
Q

List the three types of social wasps.

A

Paper wasps
hornets
yellow jackets

38
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What happens to the young queens of both bumblebee and social wasp colonies in the winter?

A

They hibernate.

39
Q

Which solitary wasp it builds cells that look like tiny pots or urns?

A

The potter wasp

40
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Name the type of insect whose colonies may have several queens.

A

Ant

41
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What are the specialized worker ants equipped with large mandibles that may be used in fighting for the colony?

A

Soldier ants

42
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Which kind of dairy aunt tends herds of corn root aphids in order to obtain honey dew from them?

A

Cornfield ant

43
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Define mutualism

A

A close relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit. Like in the cornfield ant and aphids

44
Q

Which aunts traveling long trains?

A

Army ants

45
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How are honeybee and bumble bee colonies alike and how do they differ?

A

They both have workers, drones, and one queen.

Honeybee colonies can last many years but bumblebee colonies only last one year. The queen survives to the winter to start a new colony each year. The bumblebee queen starts a colony in the ground in a dugout a hole where she lays a few eggs in the start the colony from there. A honeybee usually start a hive somewhere above ground.

46
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Why are the deepest chambers of an ant home, rather than some of the chambers closer to the surface, used as living quarters in the winter?

A

They are less prone to freezing than rooms closer to the surface.

47
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What does the name of the order Lepidoptera mean?

A

Scale wings

48
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What is the hard protective case in which most butterfly spend the people stage called?

A

Cocoon

49
Q

Name the tubular sucking Oregon with which an adult butterfly am off drinks nectar from flowers.

A

Proboscis

50
Q

Which family butterflies is the largest?

A

Brush footed butterflies

51
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What are the tiny blue butterflies who’s larva releases sweet fluid when touched by?

A

Spring Azores

52
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What is the name of the largest moth?

A

The atlas moth.

53
Q

Which month has green wings with long slightly twisted tails?

A

Luna moth

54
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Of what month is the banded woolly bear the larval form?

A

Isabella tiger moth

55
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What month has distinctive dark pink kind wings with bright blue eye spots?

A

Twin spotted sphinx moth

56
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Name the long flat insects that make up the order Dermoptera

A

Earwigs

57
Q

Which shiny insect often choose up books including two obtain start?

A

Silverfish or bookworm

58
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Explain how the Yucca moth and the Yucca plant demonstrate mutualism.

A

The Yucca my pollinates the Yucca plant and the larva live on the Yucca plants so each survives from the other.

59
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Why are hawkmoths sometimes mistaken for hummingbirds?

A

They beat their wings and hover very fast at a plant while they suck nectar.

60
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Why are termites not classified in hymenoptera with most other social insects?

A

They do not go through complete metamorphosis they go through incomplete metamorphosis.

61
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Wire InTEXT important to flowers?

A

Pollination

62
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Which Beatles very dead animals?

A

Carrion beetles

63
Q

Why did man’s original relationship with Insects change?

A

Adamant eve send led to the cursed which changed many beneficial bugs into pests

64
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Name one of the most important jobs of the entomologist

A

To find a way to control insects population

65
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Define crop rotation

A

Planting a field with one crop during when you’re in a different crop the next year used to discourage the growth of insect pests

66
Q

Name the three main helpful functions of insects.

A

Pollination
Scavengers cleaning and recycling decaying animals or poo
Food for other organisms

67
Q

Which class of arthropods is made up of animals a very hard crusty exoskeletons?

A

Crustacean

68
Q

How many distinct body regions does a crustacean have

A

Two

69
Q

Define cephalothorax, chela, and carapace

A

Combined head and thorax
Claw
Shell

70
Q

How many pairs of antenna does a crustacean have?

A

Two sets

71
Q

Name the organs with which most crustaceans breathe

A

Gills

72
Q

To which group of crustaceans do many of the most from of edible arthropods belong?

A

Decapods

73
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Which appendages are specially designed to hold food as a decapod chews?

A

Maxillipeds

74
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Name the legs of a decapod that are taped with chelae used for protection and for seizing pray

A

Chelipeds

75
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What is the term for the appendages on the underside of the abdomen that assist a decapod in swimming?

A

Swimmerets

76
Q

In which group of crustaceans to the first four pairs of legs point forward and the last three pairs point backward?

A

Amphipods

77
Q

Which branchiopod lives in extremely salty water?

A

Brine shrimp

78
Q

Which group of crustaceans are bioluminescent?

A

Krill

79
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In what way does melting in crustaceans differ from melting and insects?

A

Crustaceans keep growing so they need to keep molting Insects molt only until they are full-size then they stop.

80
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Although crayfish breathe with gills they can migrate from one stream lake to another. What enables the crayfish to make this change in location?

A

Their gills can remain moist underneath the carapace for a while

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