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Biology-Insects

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WordBank: 60 words: adroit, affliction, aggressive, antenna, appetite, culprit, deft, devour, diurnal, elusive, embryonic, entomologist, epidemic, exoskeleton, exterminator, extinguish, harbinger, indefatigable, indestructible, indigenous, industrious, ineradicable, innocuous, insatiable, insecticide, intervene, iridescent, larvae, luminous, mandible, metamorphosis, microscopic, minuscule, nemesis, nocturnal, nymph, omnipresent, oust, parasite, perennial, perennial, persist, plethora, pollinate, primeval, proboscis, prolific, quarantine, rampant, repellent, rife, skittish, sting, subterranean, swamp, swarm, trepidation, ubiquitous, undesirable, voluminous

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Alphalary for Biology-Insects (animals) (Wordlist)
A) Adaptation, Adroit, Adult, Affliction, Aggressive, Annoyance, Antennae, Aphid, Appetite
B) Balance, Beauty, Beetle, Beneficial, Bite, Blend, Breed
C) Caves, Cerci, Chitin, Classification, Cocoon, Cold-blooded, Colony, Color, Conditions, Control, Courtship, Culprit
D) Damage, Danger, Deadly, Deft, Destroy, Destructive, Development, Devour, Disease, Diurnal
E) Elusive, Embryonic, Endanger, Enemy, Entomologist, Epidemic, Estimation, Evolution, Exoskeleton, Exterminator, Extinguish
F) Form, Fuse
G) Gizzard, Grubs
H) Habitat, Harbinger, Harmful, Hatch, Health, Hibernation
I) Importance, Indefatigable, Indestructible, Indigenous, Industrious, Ineradicable, Infect, Inject, Innocuous, Insatiable, Insecticide, Instinct, Intervene, Invade, Iridescent
J) Jungle
K) Kinds, Kingdom
L) Larvae, Legs, Luminous
M) Maggot, Mandible, Metamorphosis, Microscopic, Migration, Miniscule, Mountainous
N) Nemesis, Nocturnal, Nymph
O) Omnipresent, Order, Oust, Oxygen
P) Parasite, Pattern, Perennial, Persist, Phylum, Plenty, Plethora, Poisonous, Polar, Pollinate, Predator, Primeval, Proboscis, Prolific, Protection, Pupae
Q) Quarantine
R) Rampant, Regional, Repellent, Resemblance, Resistant, Rife, Ring-like
S) Season, Segment, Shape, Size, Skeleton, Skittish, Sting, Stridulate, Struggle, Subterranean, Survival, Swamp, Swarm
T) Thorax, Trepidation
U) Ubiquitous, Undesirable, Unique, Universal
V) Value, Variety, Vibration, Voluminous
W) Warning, Wings, Worker
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Discussion Ideas/Lesson Plan: Answer the following questions:

  • 1. Here is a short list of typical insects. How many more can you name? ants, bees, butterflies, cockroaches, crickets, fireflies, fleas, dragonflies, grasshoppers, houseflies, ladybugs, lice, mosquitoes, moths, silver fish, termites, walking sticks, wasps
  • 2. Why have insects been successful at surviving? Explain.
  • 3. How many legs does an insect have? Into how many parts is an insect's body divided? Do most insects have wings and antennae?
  • 4. Discuss insects that are "good" or "beneficial" to the environment. What ones are "bad" or harmful? Be specific.
  • 5. What does the term metamorphosis mean? Explain the difference between incomplete and complete metamorphosis. Name examples of ways that insects protect themselves from their enemies.
  • 6. Are insects and spiders the same? If so, explain. If not, discuss their differences.