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Word List Insects (animals) 145 words

Insects (animals) Vocabulary Word List (145)

  • A

    adaptation, adroit, adult, affliction, aggressive, annoyance, antennae, aphid, appetite

  • B

    balance, beauty, beetle, beneficial, bite, blend, breed

  • C

    caves, cerci, chitin, classification, cocoon, cold-blooded, colony, color, conditions, control, courtship, culprit

  • D

    damage, danger, deadly, deft, destroy, destructive, development, devour, disease, diurnal

  • E

    elusive, embryonic, endanger, enemy, entomologist, epidemic, estimation, evolution, exoskeleton, exterminator, extinguish

  • F

    form, fuse

  • G

    gizzard, grubs

  • H

    habitat, harbinger, harmful, hatch, health, hibernation

  • I

    importance, indefatigable, indestructible, indigenous, industrious, ineradicable, infect, inject, innocuous, insatiable, insecticide, instinct, intervene, invade, iridescent

  • J

    jungle

  • K

    kinds, kingdom

  • L

    larvae, legs, luminous

  • M

    maggot, mandible, metamorphosis, microscopic, migration, miniscule, mountainous

  • N

    nemesis, nocturnal, nymph

  • O

    omnipresent, order, oust, oxygen

  • P

    parasite, pattern, perennial, persist, phylum, plenty, plethora, poisonous, polar, pollinate, predator, primeval, proboscis, prolific, protection, pupae

  • Q

    quarantine

  • R

    rampant, regional, repellent, resemblance, resistant, rife, ring-like

  • S

    season, segment, shape, size, skeleton, skittish, sting, stridulate, struggle, subterranean, survival, swamp, swarm

  • T

    thorax, trepidation

  • U

    ubiquitous, undesirable, unique, universal

  • V

    value, variety, vibration, voluminous

  • W

    warning, wings, worker

  • X

  • Y

  • Z

Insects and Biology Lesson Plan and Discussion Ideas: Answer the following questions:

  • 1. Here is a short insects word list. How many more can you name? ants, bees, butterflies, cockroaches, crickets, fireflies, fleas, dragonflies, grasshoppers, houseflies, ladybugs, lice, mosquitoes, moths, silver fish, termites, walking sticks, wasps
  • 2. Why have insects been successful at surviving? Explain.
  • 3. How many legs does an insect have? Into how many parts is an insect’s body divided? Do most insects have wings and antennae?
  • 4. Discuss insects that are “good” or “beneficial” to the environment. What ones are “bad” or harmful? Be specific.
  • 5. What does the term metamorphosis mean? Explain the difference between incomplete and complete metamorphosis. Name examples of ways that insects protect themselves from their enemies.
  • 6. Are insects and spiders the same? If so, explain. If not, discuss their differences.

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