Chapter 7 Entomology

Question 1

Insects are in which phylum of the animal kingdom?

Answer 1

Anthropods

Question 2

How many classes of insects are there? Name them

Answer 2

Five. Crustacea, Arachnids, Diplopida, Chilipoda, Insecta

Question 3

All insects share these four characteristics

Answer 3

Three body regions, three pairs of legs, one pair of antenna, and zero to four wings.

Question 4

What are an insects three body regions

Answer 4

Head, thorax, abdomen

Question 5

What is an exoskeleton?

Answer 5

It is the outer shell of the insect that supports the body

Question 6

What is the outer layer of the exoskeleton?

Answer 6

The cuticle

Question 7

What ate the three parts of the thorax?

Answer 7

Prothorax, mesothorax, and metathorax

Question 8

Up to how many segments can the abdomen have?

Answer 8

11 or 12

Question 9

What are the two types of mouth?

Answer 9

Chewing and sucking

Question 10

What are antenna used for?

Answer 10

Sensing odors, taste, or detection

Question 11

What is the highest percentage order of insects?

Answer 11

Beetles - their order Coleoptera comprises 40% of all insect species

Question 12

Order name for Butterflies

Answer 12

Lepidoptera

Question 13

Flies are in what order?

Answer 13

Diptera

Question 14

Which order are bees, wasps and ants in?

Answer 14

Hymenoptera

Question 15

What does arthropoda mean?

Answer 15

Jointed foot

Question 16

What class are insects?

Answer 16

Hexapoda?

Question 17

Are spiders true insects?

Answer 17

No, they have 4 pairs of legs.

Question 18

Tagmosis

Answer 18

The evolutionary process of grouping into body parts

Question 19

What is a sclerite

Answer 19

Ridgid part of exoskeleton

Question 20

Parts of the head

Question 21

Primary purpose of thorax

Answer 21

Locomotion

Question 22

What is insect blood called?

Answer 22

Hemolymph

Question 23

Ametabolous refers to..?

Answer 23

No change in form

Question 24

Hemimetabolous refers to…?

Answer 24

Incomplete metamorphosis. Another type if simple metamorphosis.

Question 25

Paurometabolous

Answer 25

Gradual change in form. Example cockroaches.

Question 26

Complete metamormophosis stages

Answer 26

Egg larvae pupae adult.
Stages quite different in form. Use different food sources

Question 27

Examples of order Thysanura

Answer 27

Silverfish & firebrats

Question 28

Epheropteta examples

Answer 28

Short lived: Mayflies. No mouthparts. Just reproduce

Question 29

What do termites eat?

Answer 29

Dead wood

Question 30

What are “bugs?”

Answer 30

Order Hemiptera. Not insects

Question 31

What is an imporyant suborder of Hemiptera

Answer 31

Homiptera. Includes Cicadas, Hoppers, Psyliluds, Whiteflies, and Aphids

Question 32

What are some examples of Neuroptera

Answer 32

Lacewings, dobsonflies, dragonflies

Question 33

What order are beetles in?

Answer 33

Coleoptera

Question 34

What are hover flies

Answer 34

They ate true flies, but look like wasps or bees