Ch 10 Flashcards by Tyler Brace

What are the five common characteristics of arthropods?

exoskeletons

Jointed legs

segmented bodies in distinct body regions

They shed their exoskeleton called molting

They have an open system of circulation with or without a heart

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Name one of Fabre’s contributions to the study of insects

He observed facts and therefore did not agree with Darwin

He discovered the importance of instinct in insects and described how these creatures behave together

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What is the term for a zoologist to studies in sec

Entomologist

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List the three distinct body regions of an insect

Head thorax and abdomen

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List the four stages of complete metamorphosis

Egg
Larva
pupa
adult

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What is an immature form of an insect that resembles the adult but has different body proportions and like

Nymph

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How does an arthropod’s open system of circulation compare to the closed circulatory system found in other animals and people?

Yellow/green/clear blood

Heart pumps blood into a large artery, bathing organs in blood. Blood goes directly back to the heart w/o veins.

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What is the main difference between a simple and a compound eye

A simple Eye has only one lens; a compound Eye has multiple lenses

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What are in insect sensory

Send ills

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Name the upper lip of an insect

Labrum

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What is the term for an insects side to side Joss

Mandibles

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Define abdomen as it pertains to an insect

The hindmost part of an insect’s body

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How may an insects thorax be distinguished from its abdomen?

The easiest way to distinguish between the thorax and abdomen is to notice the attachment of the legs. The legs attach only to the thorax; the abdomen begins after the last pair of legs.

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What is the sharp pointed Oregon the females of some species of insects used to dig into the ground to lay eggs?

Ovipositor

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List of the five classes of arthropods

Insects
crustaceans
arachnids
Centipedes
millipedes

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Name the largest order of insects

Beetles

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What is the term for the hard for wings that fit closely over a Beetle body like a shell?

Elytra

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Name thesnout beetle known for attacking the cotton plant

The Boll weevil

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Which Beetle has two sets of eyes one side above the water and another set below?

The Whirligig beetle.

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Which beetle stores air beneath it’s forewings?

Diving beetle

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What is a bug?

And insect with a special type of piercing sucking mouth parts

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What insect lives underground for 13 or 17 years before emerging as an adult?

Cicada

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What is the term for the sharp lance like structures a mosquito uses to puncture the skin of an animal or a person?

Stylets

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Name three diseases carried by mosquitoes

Yellow fever
malaria
Virus causing Encephalitis

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Which insect me carry the microbes responsible for dysentery and typhoid fever

Housefly

How can a crane fly be distinguished from

It is three times as big and does not bite.

Which flies may be the worst pass around a pond?

Black flies or Buffalo gnats

Which order do crickets, grasshoppers, Katiedid, locusts, mantises, and cockroaches belong?

Orthoptera

What name are short one grasshoppers now

Locusts

What is the term for the musical instrument of grasshoppers, crickets and katydids?

Stridulatory organs

What order includes dragonflies and damselflies?

Odonata

Give two ways in which dragonflies and damselflies differ

Damselfly Eyes are farther apart and they hold their wings upward and backward

Name to carnivorous insects belonging to the order Neuroptera

Ant lion | Lacewing

Listen explain three characteristics of cockroaches that allow them to survive in almost any environment

It cleans and grooms to protect the waterproof coating on its exoskeleton They are omnivores and eat almost anything They are nocturnal and hide during the day

Which insect order contains the most common social insects?

Hymenoptera

What is the defense mechanism that a worker bee carries?

Stinger

List the three types of social wasps.

Paper wasps hornets yellow jackets

What happens to the young queens of both bumblebee and social wasp colonies in the winter?

They hibernate.

Which solitary wasp it builds cells that look like tiny pots or urns?

The potter wasp

Name the type of insect whose colonies may have several queens.

Ant

What are the specialized worker ants equipped with large mandibles that may be used in fighting for the colony?

Soldier ants

Which kind of dairy aunt tends herds of corn root aphids in order to obtain honey dew from them?

Cornfield ant

Define mutualism

A close relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit. Like in the cornfield ant and aphids

Which aunts traveling long trains?

Army ants

How are honeybee and bumble bee colonies alike and how do they differ?

They both have workers, drones, and one queen. Honeybee colonies can last many years but bumblebee colonies only last one year. The queen survives to the winter to start a new colony each year. The bumblebee queen starts a colony in the ground in a dugout a hole where she lays a few eggs in the start the colony from there. A honeybee usually start a hive somewhere above ground.

Why are the deepest chambers of an ant home, rather than some of the chambers closer to the surface, used as living quarters in the winter?

They are less prone to freezing than rooms closer to the surface.

What does the name of the order Lepidoptera mean?

Scale wings

What is the hard protective case in which most butterfly spend the people stage called?

Cocoon

Name the tubular sucking Oregon with which an adult butterfly am off drinks nectar from flowers.

Proboscis

Which family butterflies is the largest?

Brush footed butterflies

What are the tiny blue butterflies who's larva releases sweet fluid when touched by?

Spring Azores

What is the name of the largest moth?

The atlas moth.

Which month has green wings with long slightly twisted tails?

Luna moth

Of what month is the banded woolly bear the larval form?

Isabella tiger moth

What month has distinctive dark pink kind wings with bright blue eye spots?

Twin spotted sphinx moth

Name the long flat insects that make up the order Dermoptera

Earwigs

Which shiny insect often choose up books including two obtain start?

Silverfish or bookworm

Explain how the Yucca moth and the Yucca plant demonstrate mutualism.

The Yucca my pollinates the Yucca plant and the larva live on the Yucca plants so each survives from the other.

Why are hawkmoths sometimes mistaken for hummingbirds?

They beat their wings and hover very fast at a plant while they suck nectar.

Why are termites not classified in hymenoptera with most other social insects?

They do not go through complete metamorphosis they go through incomplete metamorphosis.

Wire InTEXT important to flowers?

Pollination

Which Beatles very dead animals?

Carrion beetles

Why did man's original relationship with Insects change?

Adamant eve send led to the cursed which changed many beneficial bugs into pests

Name one of the most important jobs of the entomologist

To find a way to control insects population

Define crop rotation

Planting a field with one crop during when you're in a different crop the next year used to discourage the growth of insect pests

Name the three main helpful functions of insects.

Pollination Scavengers cleaning and recycling decaying animals or poo Food for other organisms

Which class of arthropods is made up of animals a very hard crusty exoskeletons?

Crustacean

How many distinct body regions does a crustacean have

Two

Define cephalothorax, chela, and carapace

Combined head and thorax Claw Shell

How many pairs of antenna does a crustacean have?

Two sets

Name the organs with which most crustaceans breathe

Gills

To which group of crustaceans do many of the most from of edible arthropods belong?

Decapods

Which appendages are specially designed to hold food as a decapod chews?

Maxillipeds

Name the legs of a decapod that are taped with chelae used for protection and for seizing pray

Chelipeds

What is the term for the appendages on the underside of the abdomen that assist a decapod in swimming?

Swimmerets

In which group of crustaceans to the first four pairs of legs point forward and the last three pairs point backward?

Amphipods

Which branchiopod lives in extremely salty water?

Brine shrimp

Which group of crustaceans are bioluminescent?

Krill

In what way does melting in crustaceans differ from melting and insects?

Crustaceans keep growing so they need to keep molting Insects molt only until they are full-size then they stop.

Although crayfish breathe with gills they can migrate from one stream lake to another. What enables the crayfish to make this change in location?

Their gills can remain moist underneath the carapace for a while

Ch 10 Flashcards

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