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• Answer the Science General Knowledge questions, then find the words in the grid
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Quiz Questions
1. A sap-sucking, soft-bodied insect, that has a symbiotic relationship with ants, by producing a sugar for the ants, and in return the ants protect them from predators.
2. A suborder of the order Hymenoptera, including ants, bees, wasps, braconids, ichneumons, chalcids, nearly all parasitic hymenopterans, and a few other forms.
3. One of a colony that contains a queen, who is the only one to lay eggs, and reproduce, the workers, and drones, whose job is to mate with the queen.
4. Called ants, but are the wingless females of a species of Flower Wasp.
5. Insects fo this, by releasing pheromones, making noise, or flashing a light. Their sense of smell and taste can detect chemical signals, and the sounds they emit produce recognisable patterns for mating calls and threat alarms.
6. An insect’s outer skeleton, which is primarily made of the polysaccharide chitin and specialized structural proteins. It is generally divided into three primary horizontal layers: epicuticle, exocuticle, and endocuticle.
7. This is a ferocious nomadic African ant. Using their cutting jaws, they attack snakes, birds, mammals, and humans.
8. It’s long pincers curve upwards, are used for defence and when threatened, and can also be used to capture and carry prey.
9. This system may have hundreds of Malpighian tubules, which remove nitrogenous wastes, and regulate osmotic balance. These wastes are emptied into the alimentary canal, at the junction between the midgut and the hindgut.
10. A cavity where insects’ organs blood, known as haemolymph, are suspended. The insects receive their nutrients into the organs, from this blood.
11. A fly whose name refers to the behaviour of hovering around flowers. They have yellow markings, which resemble wasps, or bees, but do not bite or sting. Many of the larvae, important pollinators, prey on aphids.
12. An insect in its sexually mature adult stage, after metamorphosis. It is the only stage during which the insect is sexually mature, and if winged, has functional wings. It is often referred to as the adult stage.
13. Insects are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of this class, the larges group with the arthropod phylum.
13. Insects are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of this class, the larges group with the arthropod phylum.
14. A species of animal that do not have a vertebral column, eg arthropods, molluscs, annelids, echinoderms, and cnidarians,
15. The Beetles, less commonly known as skin beetles, are insect pests of stored food products, and are commonly used by museums to remove, or eat, skin found on skeletons.
16. All insects begin in the form of an egg, through different stages, until it will do this into a mature insect. Some insect species gradually do this, where their transformation is subtle, or it completely does this, where each stage has a distinctly different appearance.
17. An insect often does this, to either ward off predators, or thrick prey into thinking it is harmless, eg the hover fly’s wasp-like appearance allows it to lay it’s eggs in wasp nests, where it’s larvae eat the wasp’s larvae.
18. Insects can produce glue. and protective substances, for coating individual eggs, or tough coverings for batches of eggs, called this.
19. The clade that comprises all crustaceans and hexapods.
20. The swallowtail and parnassian butterflies belong to this family.
21. An order of insects, known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walking sticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They resemble vegetation, making them difficult for predators to detect.
22. A species of insects, also called grouse locust, (order Orthoptera), that are small and related to true grasshoppers.
23. Inside an insect egg chorion, two members develop from embryonic tissue, the amnion and this.
24. The reproductive system of female insects consist of a pair of ovaries, accessory glands, one or more of these, and ducts connecting these parts.
25. A taxonomic category or group, such as a phylum, order, family, genus, or species.
26. The nervous system of an insect can be divided into a brain, and this nerve cord.
27. They are large insects in the order Orthoptera, mostly predators or omnivores, endemic to NewZealand.
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