7th Science 9W Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Which type of bird foot always has 3 toes forward and one toe back? | perching |
What part of a bird egg is made of calcium carbonate? | shell |
Insects with wings that form an X on their backs belong to the order? | Hemiptera |
The largest order of insects is | Coleoptera |
What is the upper half of a turtle's shell called | carapace |
True bugs belong to the order | Hemiptera |
The feathers extending from a bird's hand to the tip of its wing are called | primary flight feathers |
What is the largest known fish | whale shark |
The large ridge on a bird's sternum to which the flight muscles are anchored is the | keel |
What is the correct order of complete metamorphosis | egg, larva, pupa, adult |
In Which type of flight does a bird use thermals to gain altitude | soaring |
The type of snake movement used to move across sandy ground is | sidewinding movement |
What term refers to any built in knowledge that an animal is born with | instinct |
To what order do most social insects belong | Hymenoptera |
What is a female insect's egg laying structure | ovipositor |
Air enters an insect's respiratory system through openings called ? which connect directly to tubes called ? | spiracles, tracheae |
The 3 main groups of social wasps are | paper wasps, hornets, yellow jackets |
The process through which an insect sheds its external skeleton is called | molting |
The two cartilaginous fish that lack jaws is the | hagfish, lamprey |
The lizardlike reptile with a parietal eye is the | tuatara |
The outside skeleton of an arthropod is called an | exoskeleton |
From front to back, the 3 major divisions of an insect's body are the | head, thorax and abdomen |
used by moths to drink nectar | proboscis |
immature form of an insect that resembles the adult but had different body proportions and lacks wings | nymph |
structure that moths spend their pupal state in | cocoon |
an insect's feelers | antennae |
type of jaw an insect would use to hold food | maxilla |
a beetle's hardened forewings | elytra |
little sense organs | sensilla |
the wormlike growing stage of complete metamorphosis | larva |
bees and ants | Hymenoptera |
crickets and grasshoppers | Orthoptera |
scale winged insects | Lepidoptera |
wings half hardened and half membranous | Hemiptera |
flies and mosquitoes | Diptera |
lacewings and ant lions | Neuroptera |
beetles | Coleoptera |
dragonflies and damselflies | Odonata |
cicadas and leafhoppers | Homoptera |
two-winged insects | Diptera |
same winged insects | Homoptera |
five characteristics of arthropods | exoskeleton, jointed legs, segmented bodies, molting, open system of circulation |
The food storage sac in a bird's esophagus is the | crop |
Eyespots help a luna moth | scare predators |
What term refers to a chick that hatches with insulating feathers and can run or swim soon after birth | precocial |
Most birds that are or have been hunted for food are | game birds |
What fluid feeds an unhatched chick | yolk |
What is the largest lepidopteran | atlas moth |
identify the toothlike type of scale found on sharks | denticle |
What is a zoologist who studies insects | entomologist |
Male bees are called | drones |
What type of venom attacks the circulatory system | hemotoxic |
The gills of bony fish are covered by a hard, movable, protective plate called | operculum |
HOw many pairs of wings do most insects have | 2 |
The group of amphibians that consist of frogs and toads is the | anurans |
Individual projections attached to a feather's shaft | barbs |
the fastest flying bird | peregrine falcon |
an eye with more than one lens | compound eye |
a bird's sound producing organ | syrinx |
a migration route that birds follow year after year | flyway |
the introduction of natural enemies, parasites, or pathogens into an area that is becoming overrun with a particular pest | biological control |
the substance of which feathers are made | keratin |
an eye with only one lens | simple eye |
feathers that provide lightweight insulation | down |
lepidopterans that are usually nocturnal | moths |
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