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WorksheetsScience 7 Test 9
Total questions: 72
Worksheet time: 48mins
What substance makes up the outer shell of a bird egg?
Iron
Keratin
Bone
Calcium Carbonate
What is the largest known fish?
Great White Shark
Whale Shark
Lamprey
Barracuda
What group of cartilaginous fish includes skates and sawfish?
rays
chimaeras
lampreys
sharks
What is the fastest flying bird?
Bald Eagle
Hummingbird
Peregrine Falcon
Andean Condor
What term refers to a chick that is born with feathers and can walk or swim soon after birth?
altricial
precocial
primary
secondary
What fluid feeds an unhatched chick?
yolk
albumen
germinal spot
chalaza
What is the longest living animal?
Blue Whale
Tortoise
Tuatara
Alligator
What group of birds are carnivorous?
birds of prey
perching birds
water birds
game birds
What is the hindmost section of an insect called
head
thorax
abdomen
stinger
What is the upper half of a turtle's shell called?
Scute
Plastron
Carapace
Shield
What is the largest lepidopteran?
Atlas Moth
Monarch Butterfly
Blue Morpho Butterfly
Hercules Moth
What is the food storage sac located in a bird's esophagus?
crop
gizzard
pouch
stomach
What social insect is considered to have the most organized colonies?
Bees
Wasps
Ants
Termites
What substance makes up a bird's feathers?
Cotton
Keratin
Calcium Carbonate
Milt
What type of dormancy do sirens use to survive dry conditions?
Amnion
Metamorphosis
Plumage
Estivation
What is the changing of an immature hatchling to an adult?
Molting
Metamorphosis
Estivation
Migration
What is the protective layer of a reptile egg?
Amnion
Down
Plumage
Milt
What feathers provide insulation?
down
contour
flight
outer
What word means "feathers"
pinion
pulmonary
plumage
plumule
What word means "four legs"?
pteraquad
Quadricycle
Tetrapod
Bipod
What is the sperm-containing fluid released by male fish to fertilize eggs?
Milt
Roe
Pollen
Nectar
What lizards are characterized by long necks and tails and powerful legs?
Iguanids
Chameleons
Monitors
Geckos
What is the largest group of butterflies?
brushfoots
swallowtails
sulphurs
blues
What are the world's smallest snakes?
Colubrids
Vipers
Elapids
Blind
What type of crocodilian has its teeth hidden when its mouth is closed?
Crocodile
Alligator
Gharial
Caiman
What type of flight involves flapping for a few seconds and then gliding for a few seconds?
Powered Flight
Soaring
Hovering
Intermittent Flight
What group of amphibians includes frogs and toads?
Salamanders
Anurans
Caecilians
Sirenians
What bony protective plates cover the gills of a bony fish?
scales
ovipositers
operculums
myomers
What type of wasps are paper wasps, hornets and yellow jackets?
colonial
social
solitary
killer
What are male bees called?
workers
drones
princeps
kings
What are often on a moth's wings to scare predators?
Camouflage
Mouth spots
Eye spots
Poison
What is the large ridge on a bird's sternum that provides an anchor for the flight muscles?
Ribcage
Drumstick
Keel
Wishbone
What type of venom attacks the circulatory system?
Hemotoxin
Neurotoxin
Sangretoxin
Blodtoxin
How many pairs of wings do most insects have?
two
three
four
six
What order of insects have scale wings?
Coleoptera
Diptera
Orthoptera
Lepidoptera
What order of insects have dragonflies and damselflies?
Orthoptera
Odonata
Neuroptera
Thysanura
What order of insects contains the social insects?
Hymenoptera
Homoptera
Hemiptera
Isoptera
What group of insects includes lacewings and antlions?
Diptera
Orthoptera
Neuroptera
Isoptera
What group of insects have wings that form an x-shape when folded?
Hymenoptera
Homoptera
Hemiptera
Lepidoptera
What order of insects includes flies and mosquitos?
Siphonaptera
Diptera
Neuroptera
Hymenoptera
What is the largest order of insects?
Coleoptera
Lepidoptera
Hymenoptera
Diptera
What order of insects includes crickets and grasshoppers?
Odonata
Neuroptera
Homoptera
Orthoptera
What order of insects contains the true bugs?
Coleoptera
Hemiptera
Homoptera
Lepidoptera
What is the immature form of an insect that undergoes incomplete metamorphosis called?
Larva
Caterpillar
Nymph
Pupa
What are the hard outer forewings of a beetle called?
Exoskeletal wings
Elytra
Carapaces
Plastrons
What are the side-to-side jaws of an insect?
Labrum
Labium
Mandible
Maxillae
What order of insects do beetles belong to?
Coleoptera
Lepidoptera
Hymenoptera
Odonata
What are the w-shaped bands of skeletal muscle in a fish called?
(a)
What is the built-in knowledge that an animal is born with?
(a)
What insect order do fleas come from?
(a)
Which body segment of an insect has the legs attached to it?
(a)
What is the largest living lizard?
(a)
What is any animal that regulates its body temperature externally?
(a)
What structure do butterflies and moths have to drink nectar?
(a)
What is any eye that contains multiple lenses?
(a)
What is the scientific term for the "feelers" on an insect's head?
(a)
What is the worm-like stage of complete metamorphosis called?
(a)
What type of cartilaginous fish lacks jaws and does not have a sucking organ?
(a)
What grooming process do birds use to keep their feather's healthy?
(a)
What type of structure does a moth build in its pupal stage?
(a)
What special organ produces a bird's song?
(a)
What is the technique of controlling insects using natural predators, pathogens or parasites?
(a)
What are the routes that birds follow year after year?
(a)
What is the egg-laying organ of an insect?
(a)
What are the largest living reptiles?
(a)
What is the outside skeleton of an arthropod called?
(a)
What lizard has a parietal eye?
(a)
What process do insects use to get rid of a smaller exoskeleton?
(a)
Name one of the only two venomous lizards.
(a)
What color-changing cells do lizards have to allow them to match their surroundings?
(a)
What are the paired holes that sharks and rays have for respiration?
(a)
What are the tooth-like scales on a shark called?
Odonata
Denticle
Cycloid
Ganoid
