Questions for Hexapoda

1. How many tagmata do insects have?
2. What appendages are on the head?
3. What kind of eyes do insects have?
4. What are the three differences between a moth and a butterfly?
5. What different mouthparts do you see in insects?
6. What are spiracles used for?
7. T/F - Insect spiracles are always closed
8. What is at the end of the abdomen?
9. What structure in a bee aids in pollen collection?
10. What structure breaks down protein into uric acid?
11. What is the difference between crustacean molting and insect molting?
12. What hormone inhibits the prothoracic gland to cut down on ecdysone?
13. What are some of the responses to environmental conditions?
14. What animal undergoes winter sleep?
15. What animal undergoes hibernation?
16. If temperatures get really hot there is a slowdown of metabolism called _______?
17. What does daily torpor mean and who does it?
18. What is the difference between Dormancy and Diapause?
19. T/F - The dragonfly nymph looks the same as an adult dragonfly
20. Which butterfly is poisonous, the Viceroy or the Monarch?