Entomology
How many legs does an insect have?
6
Metamorphosis is:
A change in the body of insects
What is a bug?
Anything depending on who you are talking to.
What is the proper name for insects with a hard, outer-body casing and jointed legs?
Arthopods
A person who studies insects is an:
Entomologist
A spider is an insect: true or false?
False
All adult insects have four wings: true or false?
False
The three basic body parts of an insect are:
Head, thorax, abdomen
10^20
Hypothetically, if a pair of houseflies bred in April, and all the offspring lived, how many flies would there be by August?
necrophagous
feeding on carrion
rigor mortis
stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death
ambient
surrounding environment
oviposition
the act of laying or depositing eggs
Taxonomy is:
The classification of things
Insects are the most numerous living things on earth: true or false?
True
adipocere
insoluble fatty acid residue from decomposing cadavers; aka grave wax
molt
shedding of an insect's outer skeleton during a growth phase
saponification
the alkaline hydrolysis of fatty acid esters
entomology
the scientific study of insects
mites
tiny, often parasitic arachnids living on animals or plants
eclosion
emergence of an adult fly from its pupal case
glaister equation
formula used for determining the approximate time period since death based on body temperature
arthropods
organisms with jointed appendages, segmented bodies, and hard exoskeleton
postmortem interval
the time elapsed since a person has died
degree day
the unit of measure of energy absorbed by a biological system, causing growth
Larva is:
The immature stage of insect development
Exoskeleton
The tough outer covering of insects
Most insects live on land: true or false?
True
dichotomous
a key to distinguish between organisms, two option process to identify an organism
livor mortis
a purple or red discoloration of the skin caused by pooling of blood after death
macrofauna
animals visible to the naked eye, generally 1 mm and longer
putrefacation
bacteria break down tissues, decomposition of animal proteins
metamorphosis
biological process in the development of animals, usually involving
puparia
cases formed by the hardening of the last larval skin in which the pupa is formed
autolysis
cellular self-destruction
diagenesis
the breakdown and crystallization of bone in the last stage of death
carrion
the carcass of a dead, decaying organism
algor mortis
the cooling of the body temperature
instar
the developmental stage of arthropods, generally referring to changes in the size of the larva
taxonomy
the scientific study of how living things are classified
