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TERMITES; QUIZ (216) QUESTIONS WITH100% VERIFIED ANSWERS 2024-2025
Which feeding technique is not properly defined?
A. Phytophagous: feeds on insects.
B. Zoophagous (feeds on other animals)
C. Saprophagous- feeds on dead and rotting plant and animal debris - ANSWER A.
Phytophagous- eats insects
Every insect has this many body regions:
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4-7
D. 10-12, ANSWER B. 3
Which of the following is a properly worded binomial scientific name?
A. Formosan Termite
B. Formosan subterranean termite.
C. Coptotermes Formosanus
D. Coptotermes Formosanus - Answer: C. Coptotermes formosanus
Spiders are insects. (T of F) - The answer is false. Both are Arthropoda, however
spiders are not classified as Insecta.
,Each species has exactly one common name. (T or F) - The answer is false. There
may be several common names depending on the locality, but there is only one
scientific name for each given species.
Winged insects can moult once they reach adulthood. (T or F) ANSWER: False.
Winged insects do not moult once they reach adulthood.
Insect antennae can detect odours. (True or False)
Name three ways that insects serve society. - ANSWER Pollination of flowers
They help to break down decaying material, producing silk and honey.
An insect's legs and wings are related to its _______ area. - ANSWER: Thorax
Insects belong to the kingdom ____________. - Answer: Animalia
List the common names of each bug in the correct sequence.
Ants - Answer: Hymenoptera.
List the common names of each bug in the correct sequence.
Termites - Answer: Isoptera
List the common names of each bug in the correct sequence.
,Silverfish - Thysanura
List the common names of each bug in the correct sequence.
Aphids - Answer: Hemiptera.
Beetles - Answer Coleoptera
List the common names of each bug in the correct sequence.
Fleas - Answer: Siphonaptera
List the common names of each bug in the correct sequence.
Mosquitoes - Answer: Diptera
List the common names of each bug in the correct sequence.
Butterflies - Answer Lepidoptera.
What is the one occasion in which you may need to know an insect's scientific
name? - ANSWER Speaking with folks from different places about a specific
insect.
What type of metamorphosis involves a pupal stage?
A. Incomplete.
B) Gradual
, ANSWER: C. Complete.
Termite specimens should be kept in:
A: Water
B. Alcohol.
C) Any liquid
D. Air - ANSWER B: Alcohol
Which two castes are utilised to identify termites?
A. Alates.
B. Workers.
C. Soldiers
D. Nymphs: ANSWER Alates and Soldiers
Using the key for alates, what is not utilised to distinguish between alates of
Rhinotermitidae (subterranean termites) and Termitidae (desert termites)
A. The presence or absence of ocelli
B. The number of veins in the anterior of wings.
C. Wing colour and scale size - ANSWER Ocelli: presence or absence?
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