Abeka 7Th Grade Science Test 9 (Nine-Weeks Exam)

Front 1

What is the correct order of complete metamorphosis?

Back 1

Egg, larva, pupa, adult

Front 2

A large ridge on a birds sternum to which the flight muscles are anchored is the ____.

Back 2

Keel

Front 3

What is the largest known fish?

Back 3

Whale shark

Front 4

The feathers extending from a bird's "hand" to the tip of its wing are called ____.

Back 4

Primary flight feathers

Front 5

True bugs belong to the order of ____.

Back 5

Hemiptera

Front 6

What is the upper half of a turtle's she'll called?

Back 6

Carapace

Front 7

The largest order of insects is _____.

Back 7

Coleoptera

Front 8

Insects with wings that form an X on their backs belong to the order ____.

Back 8

Hemiptera

Front 9

What part of a bird egg is made of calcium carbonate?

Back 9

Shell

Front 10

Which type of bird foot always has three toes forward and one toe back?

Back 10

Perching foot

Front 11

"Same-winged" insects

Back 11

Homoptera

Front 12

"Two-winged" insects

Back 12

Diptera

Front 13

Cicadas and leafhoppers

Back 13

Homoptera

Front 14

Dragonflies and damselflies

Back 14

Odonata

Front 15

Beetles

Back 15

Coleoptera

Front 16

Lacewings and ant lions

Back 16

Neuroptera

Front 17

Flies and mosquitos

Back 17

Diptera

Front 18

Wings half hardened and half membranous

Back 18

Hemiptera

Front 19

"Scale-winged" insects

Back 19

Lepidoptera

Front 20

Crickets and grasshoppers

Back 20

Orthoptera

Front 21

Bees and ants

Back 21

Hymenoptera

Front 22

The wormlike growing stage of complete metamorphosis

Back 22

Larva

Front 23

"Little sense organs"

Back 23

Sensilla

Front 24

A beetle's hardened forewings

Back 24

Elytra

Front 25

Type of jaw an insect would use to hold food

Back 25

Maxilla

Front 26

An insect's" feelers"

Back 26

Antennae

Front 27

Structure that moths spend their pupal state in

Back 27

Cocoon

Front 28

Immature form of an insect that resembles the adult but has different body proportions and lacks wings

Back 28

Nymph

Front 29

Used by moths to drink nectar

Back 29

Proboscis

Front 30

In which type of flight does a bird use thermals to gain altitude?

Back 30

Soaring

Front 31

The type of snake movement used to move across sandy ground is ____.

Back 31

Sidewinding movement

Front 32

What term refers to any built- in knowledge that an animal is born with?

Back 32

Instinct

Front 33

To what order do most social insects belong?

Back 33

Hymenoptera

Front 34

What is a female insect's egg-laying structure?

Back 34

Ovipositor

Front 35

Air enters and insect's respiratory system through openings called ____, which connect directly to tubes called ____.

Back 35

Spiracles and tracheae

Front 36

The three main groups of social wasps are _____, _____, and _____.

Back 36

Paper wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets.

Front 37

He process through which an insect sheds its external skeleton is called _____.

Back 37

Molting

Front 38

One of the two cartilaginous fish that lack jaws is the ____.

Back 38

Hagfish or lamprey

Front 39

The lizardlike reptile with a parietal eye is the _____.

Back 39

Tuatara

Front 40

The outside skeleton of an arthropod is called ____.

Back 40

Exoskeleton

Front 41

From front to back, the three major divisions of an insect's body are the _____, _____, and _____.

Back 41

Head, thorax and abdomen

Front 42

List four of the five characteristics common to all arthropods.

Back 42

(Only need 4)

1. Jointed legs

2. Segmented bodies

3. Molting

4. Exoskeleton

5. Open system of circulation

Front 43

The food-storage sac in a bird's esophagus is the ____.

Back 43

Crop

Front 44

Which is Not a cold-blooded animal?

1. Shark

2. Cobra

3. Penguin

4. Ant lion

Back 44

3. Penguin

Front 45

Eyespots help a luna moth ____.

Back 45

Scare predators

Front 46

What term refers to a chick that hatches with insulating feathers and can run or swim soon after birth?

Back 46

Precocial

Front 47

Most birds that are or have been hunted for food are ____.

Back 47

Game birds

Front 48

What fluid feeds an unhatched chick?

Back 48

Yolk

Front 49

What is the largest lepidopteran?

Back 49

Atlas moth

Front 50

Identify the toothlike type of scale found on sharks.

Back 50

Denticle

Front 51

What is a zoologist who studies insects?

Back 51

Entomologist

Front 52

Male bees are called?

Back 52

Drones

Front 53

What type of venom attacks the circulatory system?

Back 53

Hemotoxic

Front 54

The gills of a bony fish are covered by a hard, movable, protective plate called an ____.

Back 54

Operculum

Front 55

How many pairs of wings do most insects have?

Back 55

Two

Front 56

The group of amphibians that consists of frogs and toads is the ____.

Back 56

Anurans

Front 57

Individual projections attached to a feather's shaft

Back 57

Barbs

Front 58

The fastest flying bird

Back 58

Peregrine falcon

Front 59

An eye with more that one lens

Back 59

Compound eye

Front 60

A bird's sound-producing organ

Back 60

Syrinx

Front 61

A migration route that bird's follow year after year

Back 61

Flyway

Front 62

The introduction of natural enemies, parasites, or pathogens into an area that is becoming overrun with a particular pest

Back 62

Biological control

Front 63

The substance of which feathers are made

Back 63

Keratin

Front 64

An eye with only one lens

Back 64

Simple eye

Front 65

Feathers that provide lightweight insulation

Back 65

Down

Front 66

Lepidopterans that are usually nocturnal

Back 66

Moths