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66 Cards in this Set
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What is the correct order of complete metamorphosis? |
Egg, larva, pupa, adult |
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A large ridge on a birds sternum to which the flight muscles are anchored is the ____. |
Keel |
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What is the largest known fish? |
Whale shark |
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The feathers extending from a bird's "hand" to the tip of its wing are called ____. |
Primary flight feathers |
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True bugs belong to the order of ____. |
Hemiptera |
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What is the upper half of a turtle's she'll called? |
Carapace |
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The largest order of insects is _____. |
Coleoptera |
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Insects with wings that form an X on their backs belong to the order ____. |
Hemiptera |
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What part of a bird egg is made of calcium carbonate? |
Shell |
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Which type of bird foot always has three toes forward and one toe back? |
Perching foot |
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"Same-winged" insects |
Homoptera |
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"Two-winged" insects |
Diptera |
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Cicadas and leafhoppers |
Homoptera |
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Dragonflies and damselflies |
Odonata |
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Beetles |
Coleoptera |
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Lacewings and ant lions |
Neuroptera |
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Flies and mosquitos |
Diptera |
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Wings half hardened and half membranous |
Hemiptera |
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"Scale-winged" insects |
Lepidoptera |
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Crickets and grasshoppers |
Orthoptera |
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Bees and ants |
Hymenoptera |
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The wormlike growing stage of complete metamorphosis |
Larva |
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"Little sense organs" |
Sensilla |
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A beetle's hardened forewings |
Elytra |
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Type of jaw an insect would use to hold food |
Maxilla |
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An insect's" feelers" |
Antennae |
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Structure that moths spend their pupal state in |
Cocoon |
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Immature form of an insect that resembles the adult but has different body proportions and lacks wings |
Nymph |
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Used by moths to drink nectar |
Proboscis |
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In which type of flight does a bird use thermals to gain altitude? |
Soaring |
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The type of snake movement used to move across sandy ground is ____. |
Sidewinding movement |
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What term refers to any built- in knowledge that an animal is born with? |
Instinct |
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To what order do most social insects belong? |
Hymenoptera |
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What is a female insect's egg-laying structure? |
Ovipositor |
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Air enters and insect's respiratory system through openings called ____, which connect directly to tubes called ____. |
Spiracles and tracheae |
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The three main groups of social wasps are _____, _____, and _____. |
Paper wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets. |
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He process through which an insect sheds its external skeleton is called _____. |
Molting |
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One of the two cartilaginous fish that lack jaws is the ____. |
Hagfish or lamprey |
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The lizardlike reptile with a parietal eye is the _____. |
Tuatara |
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The outside skeleton of an arthropod is called ____. |
Exoskeleton |
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From front to back, the three major divisions of an insect's body are the _____, _____, and _____. |
Head, thorax and abdomen |
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List four of the five characteristics common to all arthropods. |
(Only need 4)
1. Jointed legs 2. Segmented bodies 3. Molting 4. Exoskeleton 5. Open system of circulation |
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The food-storage sac in a bird's esophagus is the ____. |
Crop |
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Which is Not a cold-blooded animal? 1. Shark 2. Cobra 3. Penguin 4. Ant lion |
3. Penguin |
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Eyespots help a luna moth ____. |
Scare predators |
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What term refers to a chick that hatches with insulating feathers and can run or swim soon after birth? |
Precocial |
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Most birds that are or have been hunted for food are ____. |
Game birds |
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What fluid feeds an unhatched chick? |
Yolk |
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What is the largest lepidopteran? |
Atlas moth |
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Identify the toothlike type of scale found on sharks. |
Denticle |
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What is a zoologist who studies insects? |
Entomologist |
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Male bees are called? |
Drones |
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What type of venom attacks the circulatory system? |
Hemotoxic |
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The gills of a bony fish are covered by a hard, movable, protective plate called an ____. |
Operculum |
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How many pairs of wings do most insects have? |
Two |
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The group of amphibians that consists of frogs and toads is the ____. |
Anurans |
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Individual projections attached to a feather's shaft |
Barbs |
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The fastest flying bird |
Peregrine falcon |
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An eye with more that one lens |
Compound eye |
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A bird's sound-producing organ |
Syrinx |
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A migration route that bird's follow year after year |
Flyway |
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The introduction of natural enemies, parasites, or pathogens into an area that is becoming overrun with a particular pest |
Biological control |
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The substance of which feathers are made |
Keratin |
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An eye with only one lens |
Simple eye |
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Feathers that provide lightweight insulation |
Down |
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Lepidopterans that are usually nocturnal |
Moths |