Chapter 9

Question 1

What are the outside skeletons that insects have?

Answer 1

Exoskeletons

Question 2

What is the type of circulation in which blood flow is not restricted to blood vessels?

Answer 2

Open system of circulation

Question 3

Who is known as the world’s greatest entomologist?

Answer 3

Jean Henri Fabre

Question 4

What are the only invertebrates that can fly?

Answer 4

Insects

Question 5

What is the process through which insects hatch from eggs as larva, then continue as pupa, and end as adults?

Answer 5

Complete metamorphosis

Question 6

What is an eye with multiple lenses that enable it to see in several directions at once?

Answer 6

Compound eyes

Question 7

What is the upper lip of an insect?

Answer 7

Labrum

Question 8

What is the lower lip of an insect?

Answer 8

Labium

Question 9

What are the paired side-to-side jaws of an insect?

Answer 9

Mandibles

Question 10

What are the intake and outflow openings for insects to breathe?

Answer 10

Spiracles

Question 11

What is the largest order of insects?

Answer 11

Coleoptera

Question 12

What is the name of the weevil’s snout that gave it the nickname “snout beetle”?

Answer 12

Rostrum

Question 13

What order is made of true bugs?

Answer 13

Hemiptera

Question 14

What order contains insects with wings that are the same size, shape, and form?

Answer 14

Homoptera

Question 15

What order contains mosquitoes and flies?

Answer 15

Dipterans

Question 16

What order contains grasshoppers and crickets?

Answer 16

Orthoptera

Question 17

What order, which contains dragonflies and damselflies, gets its name from the sharp, tooth-like projections on the chewing mouthparts of these insects?

Answer 17

Odonata

Question 18

What order has wings that appear to be stretched over a pattern of veins?

Answer 18

Neuroptera

Question 19

What larvae make insect traps in sandy areas protected from the rain?

Answer 19

Antlion larvae

Question 20

What are insects that live in large colonies called?

Answer 20

Social insects

Question 21

What is the primary function of the queen bee?

Answer 21

To lay eggs

Question 22

What is the term for the male honeybees?

Answer 22

Drones

Question 23

What type of bee does all of the work in the honeybee colony?

Answer 23

Worker bees

Question 24

What are some of the largest common bees?

Answer 24

Bumblebees

Question 25

What are the group of wasps that do not live in organized groups?

Answer 25

Solitary wasps

Question 26

What solitary wasp uses mud to construct cells that look like tiny pots or urns?

Answer 26

Potter wasp

Question 27

What is one of the most highly organized social insects?

Answer 27

Ant

Question 28

What are specialized worker ants equipped with large mandibles used for fighting for the colony?

Answer 28

Soldier ants

Question 29

What are the ants that have a relationship with aphids to “milk” them for food?

Answer 29

Dairy ants

Question 30

What is a close relationship between two organisms in which both benefit?

Answer 30

Mutualism

Question 31

What order is the second largest insect order and includes butterflies and moths?

Answer 31

Lepidoptera

Question 32

What is a butterfly or moth larva?

Answer 32

Caterpillar

Question 33

What are the silk-spinning organs on caterpillars?

Answer 33

Spinnerets

Question 34

What is the long sucking organ?

Answer 34

Proboscis

Question 35

What is the largest family of butterflies?

Answer 35

Brush-footed butterflies

Question 36

What family of butterflies was named for the distinctive extensions found on their hind wings?

Answer 36

Swallowtails

Question 37

What is the larval form of the Isabella tiger moth?

Answer 37

Banded Woolly Bear

Question 38

What order contains earwigs?

Answer 38

Dermaptera

Question 39

What order contains termites?

Answer 39

Isoptera

Question 40

What order contains silverfish?

Answer 40

Thysanura