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7th Science 9W
Ch. 8-10 (9 weeks exam)
| 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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