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Insect Vocabulary

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 43mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an insect?

a)

a reptile

b)

an animal with six legs, head, thorax, & abdomen

c)

a creepy, crawly thing

d)

anything that crawls or flies

2.

What part of the insect would you find on its head? Choose 2.

a)

abdomen

b)

antennae

c)

eyes

d)

legs

3.

Where would you find the thorax of an insect?

a)

On the end

b)

In the middle

c)

on its feet

4.

What is the word for the final part of the insect where its bottom would be?

a)

legs

b)

abdomen

c)

mandibles

d)

teeth

5.

What is the hard outer shell on an insect called?

a)

indoskeleton

b)

exoskeleton

c)

abdomen

d)

mandibles

6.

What does an insect eat with?

a)

teeth

b)

mandibles

c)

its feet

d)

variables

7.

Like your fingers, insects use these to feel and sense things.

a)

their thorax

b)

antennae

c)

toes

d)

hands

8.

What does the word metamorphosis mean?

a)

a great change

b)

no change

c)

to eat meat

d)

to grow up

9.

Look at the life cycle in the picture. Is this complete or incomplete metamorphosis?

a)

complete

b)

incomplete

10.

Look at the life cycle in the picture. Is this complete or incomplete metamorphosis?

a)

complete

b)

incomplete

11.

What is the stage of life after the egg in a complete life cycle?

a)

egg

b)

larva

c)

pupa

d)

adult

12.

Insects like ants and honeybees like to work and live together. They are called _______ insects.

a)

social

b)

solitary

c)

happy

d)

unsocial

13.

Insects that live alone and do not work together are called __________.

a)

social

b)

solitary

c)

lonely

d)

happy

14.

What do you call a group of insects that live and work together?

a)

herd

b)

colony

c)

bugs

d)

flock

15.

In a colony, whose job is it to protect the nest and take care of the young?

a)

queen

b)

worker

c)

babysitter

d)

king