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100
What is the thorax?
The body section that wings and legs are attached.
100
What are femur, tibia, and tarsus?
The three parts of the leg from top (part connected to insect) to bottom.
100
What is the ovaries and eggs?
The organ that takes up most of the space in a female grasshopper.
100
What is the rectum?
The pouch at the end of the intestine where final digestion occurs and waste material is stored until it is released.
100
What are vormerine teeth?
The two small teeth on the roof of a frog's mouth - used to hold prey.
200
What is four?
The number of wings grasshoppers have.
200
What are spiracles?
The tiny openings on the sides of the grasshopper used to take in oxygen.
200
What is the crop?
The organ located at the anterior end of the esophagus that stores food temporarily.
200
What is the anus?
The opening where waste materials are released.
200
What is the esophagus (leads to the stomach) and the glottis (leads to the lungs)
The two openings in the back of the mouth (throat) of the frog.
300
What are the hindwings?
The wings that are membranous and used for flying.
300
What is the ovipositor?
The structure at the posterior end of a female used for digging into the dirt to deposit eggs.
300
What are the gastric caeca?
The tentacle-like organs attached to the stomach.
300
What are malpighian tubules?
Small tubes connected to the stomach that are primitive kidneys and filter out liquid wastes.
300
What is frogs get a large part of the oxygen they need by diffusion (through the skin)?
The reason the frog's lungs are so small.
400
What is the forewings?
The wings that are thick and leathery and used for gliding and protection.
400
What is chewing?
Purpose of mouthparts - labrum, labium, and palps.
400
What is to produce and secrete digestive enzymes into the stomach?
The purpose of the gastric caeca?
400
What is true?
T or F I have run out of questions.
400
What is the gall bladder?
The small sac connected to a frog's stomach that stores bile (needed to digest fat). You have one, too.
500
What is the tympanum or tympanic membrane?
The structure covered by the wings that is used for hearing.
500
What is the prostonum?
The hard, saddle-shaped structure that covers most of the thorax.
500
What is the stomach?
The organ where both chemical and mechanical digestion occurs (it "churns" just like ours).
500
What is ______?
T or F You are tired of studying and want summer vacation to begin as soon as possible.
500
What is the liver?
The largest internal organ in the frog (same for humans).






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