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A First Look At Insects
Test Description: Test for Chapter 9 of Apologia's Zoology 1- Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is the study of insects?
A
Entomology
B
Endimology
C
Ectomology
D
Insectology
2) What should you count to determine if an adult creature is an insect?
A
Eight legs
B
Six legs
C
Two body parts
D
Four to six wings
3) What are considered pests in entomology?
A
Insects that sting.
B
Insects that buzz around persistently.
C
Insects that are not beneficial to people.
D
Insects that eat human food.
4) Which features correctly identify an insect?
A
Insects are cold-blooded, have an exoskeleton, have six legs, and have three body parts.
B
Insects are warm-blooded, have no skeleton, have six legs, and have three body parts.
C
Insects have two body parts, six to eight legs, an exoskeleton.
D
Insects live part of their lives in a larvae state.
5) What are the three parts of an insect's body called?
A
Head, thorax, and wings.
B
Head, thorax, and abdomen.
C
Head, abdomen, and exoskeleton.
D
Head, shoulders, and legs.
6) There are three types of mouths in insects. Do you remember what they are?
A
Chewing mouths, sucking mouths, and sponging mouths.
B
Chewing mouths, pricking mouths, and proboscis mouths.
C
Sponging mouths, whining mouths, and stylets.
D
Sucking mouths, piercing mouths, and sponging mouths.
7) What is an exoskeleton?
A
A part of the insect that it must shed during molting in order to grow larger.
B
The part of an insect that is able to smell pheromones.
C
An 'outside skeleton' that provides some protection and stability for an insect.
D
A skeleton that is made up of exons.
8) What are the insect's two types of eyes?
A
Cerci and compound eyes.
B
Compound eyes and simple eyes.
C
Ocelli and stylets.
D
Antennae and simple eyes.
9) When an insect sheds or molts its exoskeleton, what is left?
A
A pheromone.
B
A clasper.
C
A cast.
D
A thorax.
10) Why are antennae so important to insects?
A
They use them to know which direction to fly.
B
They would not fly stably without them.
C
They use them to 'smell' a good place to lay eggs, food, and pick up messages from their family and friends.
D
They use them to taste things.
11) Which of the following insects has a chewing mouth?
A
A grasshopper.
B
A spider.
C
A fly.
D
A mosquito.
12) Which of the following insects has a sucking mouth?
A
A praying mantis.
B
A beetle.
C
A cricket.
D
A butterfly.
13) Which of the following insects has a sponging mouth?
A
A mosquito.
B
A butterfly.
C
A leafhopper.
D
A fly.
14) What are the hundreds of little projections or 'hairs' on an insect's leg called, and for what are they used?
A
Claspers--and they're used to pull up on vertical surfaces.
B
Cerci--and they're used to grip the surface on which they are standing.
C
Trochanters--and they're used to feel changes in temperature.
D
Setae--and they're used to taste, smell, and sense movement.
15) What type of wing does a dragonfly have?
A
A membranous wing.
B
A veinless wing.
C
A scaled wing.
D
Halteres.
16) What type of wing does a butterfly have?
A
A veinless wing.
B
A membranous wing.
C
Halteres.
D
A scaled wing.
17) The abdomen is so important on a bug because it contains the little holes with tubes connected to the trachea to let air into the body. These little holes are known as:
A
Trachealites.
B
Spiracles.
C
Ovipositors.
D
Cerci.
18) What type of breathing does an insect use to gather oxygen and get rid of waste gases?
A
Spiraclitis.
B
Activity breathing.
C
Flying breathing.
D
Passive breathing.
19) The two appendages at the very tip a bug's abdomen that provide the insect with a sense of touch at the back of the body are called:
A
Ovipositors.
B
Setae.
C
Cerci.
D
Claspers.
20) How can you tell if an insect is male or female?
A
Look for an ovipositor.
B
Ask it.
C
See if there are cerci on it.
D
Look for halteres.
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