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Insect Quiz: Test Your Knowledge on Insects and Their Impact

This quiz tests your knowledge about insects, their biology, and their impact on the environment and human history. Answer questions about insect species, their roles in ecosystems, and their developmental processes.

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1 Which of the following titles did Insect have?

2 Without predators to keep them in check, insects can undergo almost unstoppable ________.

3 The ________ has greatly affected human history, as silk-driven trade established relationships between China and the rest of the world.

4 What format does Insect follow?

5 [13] Most of this food is ingested in the form of macromolecules and other complex substances like proteins, polysaccharides, ________, and nucleic acids.

6 The abdomen also contains most of the ________, respiratory, excretory and reproductive internal structures.

7 For example, ________ feed on crops and cause problems for farmers, but ladybugs feed on aphids, and can be used as a means to get significantly reduce pest aphid populations.

8 The most diverse insect groups appear to have coevolved with flowering ________.

9 What is the subphylum of Insect?

10 ________ in insects is the biological process of development all insects must undergo.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the biodiversity of New Zealand is dominated by bird families that flew in from Australia and insects, frogs and plants that were on the island when it broke off from Gondwana.
  • the wetlands of the Hudson Plains are "notorious for their large populations of biting insects".
  • the Buffalo Treehopper (pictured) is an insect named for its resemblance to the American Bison.
  • the Hypothenemus hampei, a small coleopter insect native to Africa, is recognized for being the most harmful pest to coffee crops worldwide.
  • the diet of the Crescent Honeyeater (pictured) changes from nectar and invertebrates to wholly insects during the breeding season.
  • the insect hormone bursicon hastens the tanning of the cuticle and hardens it.
  • some grass-endophyte symbioses produce loline alkaloids that are insecticidal and deterrent to various insects.
  • Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya has won the Ananda Purashkar and the Rabindra Puraskar, prestigious awards for Bengali literature, for his writing on insects and popular science.
  • discontinuous gas exchange is a respiratory system used by over 50 species of insect.
  • Archidermapteron martynovi is an extinct species of earwig named for Andrey Vasilyevich Martynov, who conducted extensive studies of fossil insects in the Soviet Union.
  • along with Ithonidae, Polystoechotidae are regarded as the most primitive living members of the insect order Neuroptera.
  • in addition to human spaceflight, there have been many animals in space, including monkeys, apes, mice, dogs, guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, tortoises, fish, newts, insects, snails, spiders and nematodes.
  • Meller's Chameleon (pictured) catches insects and birds 50 cm (20 inches) away with its tongue.
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