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Science Chapter 8-10 Test
Mr. G
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Science
7th Grade
03/12/2013

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Nocturnal lepidopterans
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Moths
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Feathers that provide lightweight insulation
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Down
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Eye with only one lens
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Simple
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Feathers are made from
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Keratin
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Introduction of natural enemies, parasites, or pathogens to an area overrun with pests
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Biological control
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Migration route that birds follow year after year
Definition
Flyway
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Bird’s sound-producing organ
Definition
Syrinx
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Eye with more than one lens
Definition
Compound
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Faster flying bird
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Peregrine falcon
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Individual projections attached to a feather’s shaft
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Barbs
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Zoologist who studies insects
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Entomologist
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Male bees
Definition
Drones
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Type of venom that attacks the circulatory system
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Hemotoxic
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Gills of bony fish are covered by hard, movable, protective plates called
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Operculum
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How many pairs of wings do most insects have
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Two
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Group of amphibians that include frogs and toads
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Anurans
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Worm-like growing stage of complete metamorphosis
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Larva
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Little sense organs
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Sensilla
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Beetle’s hard forewings
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Elytra
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Type of jaw an insect would use to hold food
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Maxilla
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An insects “feelers”
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Antennae
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Structure that moths spend their pupal state in
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Cocoon
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Immature form of an insect that resembles the adult but has different body proportions and no wings
Definition
Nymph
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Used by moths to drink nectar
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Proboscis
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Which type of flight do birds use thermals to gain altitude
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Soaring
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Type of snake movement used on sandy ground
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Sidewinding
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Built in knowledge that an animal is born with
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Instinct
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What order do most social insects belong to
Definition
Hymenoptera
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A female insect’s egg-laying structure
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Ovipositor
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.Tooth-like type of scale found on sharks
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Placoid
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Largest lepidopteran
Definition
Atlas moth
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What fluid feeds an unhatched chick
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Yolk
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Group of birds that are hunted for food
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Game birds
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What kind of bird hatches with feathers and can run or swim soon after birth
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Precocial
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What do the eyespots on a luna moth help it do
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Scare predators
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Food storage sac in a bird’s esophagus
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Crop
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Feathers extending from a birds “hand” to the tip of the wing
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Primary flight
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Largest known fish
Definition
Whale shark
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Large ridge on a bird’s sternum to which the flight muscles are anchored
Definition
Keel
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List in order the steps of complete metamorphosis.
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Egg, larva, pupa, adult
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True bugs belong to which order
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Hemiptera
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Upper half of a turtle’s shell
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Carapace
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Largest order of insects
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Coleoptera
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Insects with wings that form and X on their backs
Definition
Hemiptera
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What part of a bird egg is made of calcium carbonate
Definition
Shell
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Which type of bird foot has three toes forward and one toe back
Definition
Perching
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List the three major divisions of an insect’s body from front to back.
Definition
Head, thorax, abdomen
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What do you call the outside skeleton of an arthropod
Definition
Exoskeleton
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Lizard-like reptile with a parietal eye
Definition
Tuatara
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Cartilaginous fish that lacks jaws
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Hagfish or lamprey
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Process through which an insect sheds its external skeleton
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Molting
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Three main groups of social wasps
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Paper wasps, hornets, yellow jackets
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Air enters an insect’s body through tiny openings called
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Spiracles
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What are the tiny tubes in an insect’s respiratory system called
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Tracheae
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List the 5 characteristics common to all arthropods.
Definition
Exoskeleton, jointed legs, segmented bodies, molting, open system of circulation
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“Same-winged” insects
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Homoptera
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“Two-winged” insects
Definition
Diptera
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Cicadas and leafhoppers
Definition
Homoptera
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Dragonflies and damselflies
Definition
Odonata
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Beetles
Definition
Coleoptera
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Lacewings and ant lions
Definition
Neuroptera
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Flies and mosquitoes
Definition
Diptera
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Wings half hardened and half membranous
Definition
Hemiptera
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“Scale-winged” insects
Definition
Lepidoptera
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Crickets and grasshoppers
Definition
Orthoptera
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Bees and ants
Definition
Hymenoptera
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29. What did Peter tell the people to do to be saved in Acts 2?
Definition
Repent and be baptized
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