Teacher Workbooks. Language Arts Series Internet Reading Comprehension Insects Theme, Vol. 1

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2 Teacher Workbooks Language Arts Series Internet Reading Comprehension Insects Theme, Vol. 1 Copyright 2003 Teachnology Publishing Company A Division of Teachnology, Inc. For additional information, visit us at Some images

3 Table of Contents Theme Ants 1-4 Bees 5-8 Beetles 9-12 Butterflies Crickets Flies Worms Answers SKill Internet Reading Comprehension 1-30 Answers Standard Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes 1-30 Answers iii

4 Ants Ants Click on Ant Meals, then Very fond of insects, sweet foods and seeds. 1. How many species of ant are there? 2. What ants especially like the sweet foods? 3. What do the sweet foods provide the ant with? 4. What determines an ant s favorite food? 1

5 Ants Ants Click on Ants Fighting, then ants fight to protect their nest. 1. Identify two reasons ants fight. 2. What type of behavior do ants demonstrate when protecting their nests? 3. When do ants sometimes move their nests? 4. What does the ant s behavior lead one to believe about their intended existence? 2

6 Ants Ants Click on Ant Fighting, then Ants fight to protect their nests. 1. Describe the fluid ants fight with. 2. What does an ant use to bite? 3. What ant has a barb? 4. Describe the Brachyponera s mandible. 3

7 Ants Ants Click on Ant Meals and Gather honey and store it in the stomach. 1. What type of liquid is carried by the ant? 2. Where is the liquid stored? 3. What happens to the crop when it is full of liquid? 4. When the crop is empty, what does the ant do? 4

8 Bees Honey Bees Click on Honey Bee Facts. 1. For approximately how many years have bees been making honey? 2. During what season do honey bees produce honey? 3. Why do honey bees make honey during the cold winter? 4. Where is the European honey bee found? 5

9 Bees Honey Bees Click on Composition of Honey. 1. What is honey mostly composed of? 2. What other substances can be found in trace levels in honey? 3. What s another name for table sugar? 4. What is honey considered to be? 6

10 Bees Swarms Click on Catching a Swarm. Then click on The Swarm at Rest. 1. What will a swarm do while searching out a nesting home? 2. Describe the bees while in a swarm. 3. What don t the bees have in the stage of swarming? 4. When does a bee sting? 7

11 Bees Capturing a Wild Bee Hive Click on Catching a Wild Hive, then Smoking the Hive 1. What is the first step in capturing a wild bee hive? 2. What do bees do when faced with smoking out? (hint: two things) 3. Describe the bees after feasting on honey. 4. Would you like to be a bee keeper? 8

12 Beetles Ladybird 1. What are Ladybeetles more commonly known as? (hint: two names) 2. What do ladybugs help control? 3. Are ladybugs considered harmful or beneficial? 4. When and where was the last time you observed a ladybug? 9

13 Beetles Beetles 1. Where are the beetle s antennae located? 2. What length distance do beetles fly? 3. In addition to flying, how do beetles move? (hint: two answers) 4. Why do beetles move around? 10

14 Beetles Beetles 1. What is a Coleoptera? 2. What four beetles are mentioned in the first paragraph 3. Where don t beetles live? 4. Where do many beetles like to live? 11

15 Beetles Lady Beetle 1. What other names are Lady Beetles known as? 2. What are Lady Beetles called in Europe? 3. What is Ohio s state bug? 4. When did Ohio choose the Lady Beetle as their state bug? 12

16 Butterflies Butterflies Click on Butterfly Gardening link. 1. What does having a butterfly garden help keep safe and preserve? 2. Of the four goals of a butterfly garden, what do you think is the most important? 3. Is cultivating a butterfly easy or difficult? 4. How far will a butterfly travel to reach a flower? 13

17 Butterflies Butterflies Click on Butterfly Gardening link. 1. What do butterflies have an acute sense of? 2. What will attract butterflies to your garden? 3. What part of a flower does the butterfly eat? 4. What does every species of butterfly have? (hint: think of gardening) 14

18 Butterflies Butterflies Click on Butterfly Gardening link. 1. Identify two plants butterflies are attracted to. 2. What does the yellow cassia plant offer the yellow Sulphur butterfly? 3. The life cycle of a butterfly takes approximately how long? 4. Caterpillars are described as what king of eaters? 15

19 Butterflies Butterflies Click on the Essential Butterfly Guide and Much More! 1. How many butterflies exist? 2. Where are butterflies found? 3. Identify two butterflies that could be seen in a garden. 4. Where in the United States can t the Clouded Sulphur butterfly be found? (hint: 3 places) 16

20 Crickets Crickets Scroll down to Cricket Choir to answer the following questions. 1. When are most adult crickets the most active? 2. What determines the speed of a cricket s chirping? 3. When will a cricket chirp the fastest? 4. Crickets have special songs/chirps for different occasions, true or false. 17

21 Crickets Crickets Scroll down to Eating Machine to help answer the following questions. 1. When are cricket eggs layed? 2. What do crickets eat? 3. What are a crickets favorite two items to eat? 4. When was the last time you heard a cricket? 18

22 Crickets Crickets Scroll down to Lethal Legs to help answer the following questions. 1. How many crickets exist in North America? 2. What are scientists who study crickets called? 3. What primary function do the cricket s legs have? 4. Why will a spider wrap its web around a cricket prior to biting the insect? 19

23 Crickets Crickets Scroll down to Natural History to help answer the following questions. 1. Identify at least three specific locations a cricket could live. 2. Where in the world can crickets be found? 3. How does a cricket make its chirping sound? 4. What do crickets like to eat? 20

24 Crickets Crickets Scroll down to Connections to help answer the following questions. 1. How can temperature be determined by listening to crickets chirp? 2. What does the French term Criquer mean? 3. What do the Dutch call a cricket? 4. What are crickets called in China? 21

25 Flies Flies 1. Where do flies live? 2. What do flies eat? 3. What kind of eyes do flies have? 4. How many feet does a fly have? 22

26 Flies House Flies 1. What can a housefly detect? 2. What covers a housefly s body? 3. What does a housefly s feet have? 4. How often does a housefly flap its wings? 23

27 Flies Housefly 1. About how long does a housefly live? 2. A female housefly will lay about how many eggs during its lifespan. 3. What does a housefly use to taste? 4. What is the housefly s antennae used for? 24

28 Flies Housefly 1. What is the common scientific name of the housefly? 2. What is the fly, a scavenger or predator? 3. What does a fly carry? 4. What is the fly s lower lip compared to? 25

29 Flies Housefly 1. Where do houseflies inhabit? 2. Do flies ever bite living creatures? 3. Identify three diseases that can be carried and transmitted from a fly. 4. What does a fly place on its food prior to eating? 26

30 Worms Worms Click on the flowerpot. 1. Who brought worms to the new world? 2. When were worms brought to the new world? 3. Where were the worms during this trip? 4. If worm ancestors lived, when were they extinguished? 27

31 Worms Worms Click on the flowerpot, then the arrow-stating click here to go on. 1. What don t worms have in their bodies? 2. What family do worms belong? 3. Describe a worm s body. 4. How many worm-like animals have segments? 28

32 Worms Worms Click on My Body and My Beginning and End to answer the following questions. 1. What is a worm s head called? 2. What are the worm s toes called? 3. What does the worm need in order to survive? 4. Describe a worm s body. 29

33 Worms Worms 1. What two organs don t worms have? 2. Through what organ do worms breathe? 3. Where does oxygen go in the worm s body? 4. What will happen to a worm if submerged in water too long? 30

34 Page 1 1. many 2. workers 3. energy 4. species Page 2 1. monopolize food, protect nest 2. aggressive 3. defeated 4. peacefully 5. Page 3 1. poisonous 2. mandible 3. Brachyponera 4. strong Page 4 1. sweet 2. crop 3. stretches 4. look for more food Page million years 2. winter 3. no nectar available 4. all around the world Page 6 1. sugars 2. pollen, water 3. sucrose 4. last product of bees Page 7 1. rest 2. mild 3. hive 4. threatened or injured Page 8 1. smoke 2. eat honey 3. docile 4. Answers will vary. Answers Page 9 1. between eyes 2. short 3. crawling or swimming 4. find food, to travel a short distance Page ladybug or ladybird beetles 2. pests 3. beneficial 4. Answers will vary. Page beetle 2. fireflies, scarabs, click beetles, ladybird 3. Antarctica 4. tropics Page ladybugs, coccinellids 2. Europe Ladybirds 3. Lady Beetle Page preserve many species 2. Answers will vary. 3. easy 4. miles Page smell 2. planting the right flowers 3. nectar 4. favorite flower Page Answers will vary. 2. camouflage 3. few short weeks 4. fussy Page all over the world 3. monarchs, swallowtails, viceroys 4. Florida, Texas, and California Page night 2. air temperature 3. warm 4. T Page late summer/fall 2. almost anything 3. wool/silk 4. Answers will vary Page s 2. Entomologists 3. escape from predators 4. the spider, prevent cricket from kicking Page house, meadows, trees, forests, lawns 2. all over the world 3. rub hardened area over upper wings against their thick vein 4. plants Page count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and add Little Creaker 3. Krekel 4. Kuo Kuo Page where people and organisms live 2. waste, uncovered foods 3. compound 4. six Page airflow 2. tiny hairs 3. suction times/second 31

35 Page days 2. 2, feet 4. smell Page Musca domestica 2. scavenger 3. disease, protozoans 4. tube like Page most areas in the world 2. no 3. dysteria, typhoid fever, cholera 4. digestive liquid Page Europeans s 3. soil 4. Ice Age Page bones 2. phylum annelid 3. soft 4. 1,000 s Page anterior 2. posterior 3. moisture 4. Answers will vary. Page lungs and nose 2. skin 3. bloodstream 4. drown 32

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