Test 1

Question 1

What are the positive effects of insects?

Answer 1

1.Food for animals 2.Agents of decomp (termites and Dung Beetles) 3.Soil Formation

Question 2

What is the main speciesl that is insectivorous?

Answer 2

Birds

Question 3

What is a pest?

Answer 3

Damages plants important to humans,Annoy injure or kill humans or animals important to us,Damage products and possessions

Question 4

What are the 4 ways a pest can damage plants

Answer 4

Feeding,sucking,chewing,ovipositing,boring holes in trees,and transmitting plant diseases

Question 5

what is entomophobia?

Answer 5

Exaggerated fear of insects

Question 6

What are examples of venomous insects and arthropods?

Answer 6

Mosquitos,ticks,brown recluse,deer flies,chiggers,Wasps,kissing bees,centipeeds,scorpians

Question 7

Parasites that live outside the body Examples: Lice fleas mites mosquitos

Answer 7

Ectoparacites

Question 8

Parasites that live inside the body examples: Sheep bot fly,screw worms

Answer 8

Endoparacites

Question 9

What factors detirmine if a species is a pest

Answer 9

Market value of crop involved,Susceptibility of the crop to damage,cost to control insect species,Weather conditions,imppact the control has on the environment

Question 10

What is the biggest order of classified insects?

Answer 10

Coleoptera (BEETLES ARE THE MOST COMMON)

Question 11

Front part of the insect

Answer 11

Anterior

Question 12

back part of the insect

Answer 12

Posterior

Question 13

top of the insect

Answer 13

dorsal

Question 14

Bottomside of the insect

Answer 14

ventral

Question 15

Sides of the bug

Answer 15

lateral

Question 16

From the head to butt of the length of the body

Answer 16

median line

Question 17

Part furthest from the body,antennae,legs,wings

Answer 17

distal

Question 18

closest to the body

Answer 18

proximal

Question 19

Body divided into 3 tamata- the process of fusing segments to form the tagmata

Answer 19

tagmosis

Question 20

What are the three tagmata

Answer 20

Head,thorax,and abdomen

Question 21

True of false: segments may be completely fused or lossely fused

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Each tagma has a different function and different organs: head,thoraz, and abdomen

Answer 22

head:sensing system,information processing,and feeding

Throax:locomotion

Abdomen:Digestion,repro,blood cirulation,breathig,and sensory

Question 23

What are the 3 saections the throax is divided into

Answer 23

Prothorax,mesothroax,methathorax

Question 24

harding ot the thorax segments-must be exposed to air

Answer 24

sclerotization

Question 25

Hardened forewings

Answer 25

Elytra

Question 26

Contains almost all major muscle groups

Answer 26

thorax

Question 27

What are the two major components of the exoskeleton

Answer 27

Chitin (long chain polysacchrides) and Proteins (used for tanning and sclerotization

Question 28

What is chitin?

Answer 28

Insect cuticle is like plywood and very storng,flexible to bend but resists breakage.

Question 29

How manys segments do the basic legs have?

Answer 29

5

Question 30

What are the name of the segments starting with the part of the leg that attaches to the body

Answer 30

coxa,trochanter,femur,tibia,tarsia

Question 31

Front legs used for digging

Answer 31

Fassorial

Question 32

front legs used for capturing prey

Answer 32

raptorial

Question 33

hing legs useed for jumping

Answer 33

saltatorial

Question 34

hind legs used for swimming

Answer 34

natorial

Question 35

two winged insects (only one pair) examples: flies and mosquitos

Answer 35

diptera

Question 36

Flies and mosquitos have club like legs called...

Answer 36

haltera

Question 37

How is insect wing motion measured

Answer 37

hertz

Question 38

What do insects eat

Answer 38

Everything! Leaves,roots,pollen,decaying plants and animals,blood,animal poo, etc

Question 39

Mouthoparts that are directed downwards that are specialized for processing plants

Answer 39

chewing mouthparts (grasshopper)

Question 40

Mouthparts that are modified into styles for piercing plants and sucking out juices

Answer 40

piercing/sucking (box elder)

Question 41

mouth parts adapted for lapping nectar

Answer 41

lapping mouth parts(bee)

Question 42

coiled mouth parts adapted for siphoning nectar

Answer 42

siphoning mouth parts (butterfly)

Question 43

Flat mouth area used to soak up liquid with cutting mouth parts to tear the flesh

Answer 43

sponging mouth parts (flies)

Question 44

What are additional uses for mouth parts?

Answer 44

defense (soldier termites)