Which stage of development is most likely missing when an insect goes through incomplete metamorphosis?

• Egg
• Nymph
• Pupa
• Adult

Insects can be distinguished from spiders because insects have:

• 2 body sections
• 6 legs
• 8 legs
• No wings

Insects with toothed jaws that bite and tear their food have what type of mouth parts?

• Chewing
• Grinding
• Multiple
• Sucking

Melanie finds aphids on her plant. She is most concerned the aphids will damage her plants by:

• Chewing
• Piercing and sucking
• Rasping and sucking
• Sponging

When insects are worms or caterpillars, what is their stage of development?

• Adult
• Egg
• Fly
• Larva

Marcel notices that the leaves of his bedding plants have been damaged by chewing insects. Which insects are most likely responsible for the damage?

• Aphids
• Butterflies
• Grasshoppers
• Thrips

Jana finds insects on her bedding plants. She knows they are insects because of their:

• Single body region and eight legs
• Multiple body regions and hundred legs
• Three body regions and six legs
• Four body regions and twenty legs

Butterflies have which type of mouth part?

• Chewing
• Piercing - sucking
• Rasping - sucking
• Siphoning

A sponging-type insect most likely damages a plant by:

• Carrying diseases from other plants
• Chewing on the leaves
• Piercing the leaves and sucking sap from the plant
• Rasping the leaves and sucking sap from the plant

Samantha learns that for a plant to contract a disease it must have:

• an ailment
• dry soil
• an insect problem
• a pathogen