Insect Vocabulary

What is an insect?

• a reptile

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

• a creepy, crawly thing

• anything that crawls or flies

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

• abdomen

• antennae

• eyes

• legs

Where would you find the thorax of an insect?

• On the end

• In the middle

• on its feet

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

• legs

• abdomen

• mandibles

• teeth

What is the hard outer shell on an insect called?

• indoskeleton

• exoskeleton

• abdomen

• mandibles

What does an insect eat with?

• teeth

• mandibles

• its feet

• variables

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

• their thorax

• antennae

• toes

• hands

What does the word metamorphosis mean?

• a great change

• no change

• to eat meat

• to grow up

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

• complete

• incomplete

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

• complete

• incomplete