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The answers to the 3 interactive Biology-Insect puzzles at www.vocabulary.com/insects.html are:
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You can access the Insects FILL-IN-THE-BLANKS Assessment exercise here.
Also, a lesson plan of five questions to study are listed at the bottom of this page."
A: adult, adaptation, adroit, affliction, aggressive, annoyance, antennae, appetite, aphid
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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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. For an "assessment exercise" for the Bioilogy-Insect Thematic Content, click on Insect FITB Assessment here.
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["S140Level 3 C/W"]
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["S140Level 2-Match"] --
["S140Level 3-Match"]
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[S140Level 2-Syn/Ant] --
[S140Level 3-Syn/Ant]
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["S140Level 2 WF"] --
["S140Level 3 WF"]
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["S140Level 2 Story"] --
["S140Level 3 Story"]
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["S140Level 3 T/F"]
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