Stump your parents
Amateur
- How many body parts does an insect have?
- 2
- 6
- 1
- 3
- What is the name of the middle body part of an insect?
- Head
- Leg
- Thorax
- Abdomen
- The term “bug” describes a certain type of insect. What do bugs have that other insects don’t have?
- Ridges on all six legs
- Compound eyes
- Piercing and sucking mouthparts
- What do you call a scientist who studies insects?
- An entomologist
- A paleontologist
- An ornithologist
- Crickets are famous for chirping, but how do they make that noise?
- Rubbing their legs together
- Whistling through their mandibles
- Jumping into the air
- Insects make up what percentage of the world’s animals?
- 40 percent
- 60 percent
- 80 percent
- Of the following, which body part do insects not have in common with humans?
- lungs
- heart
- esophagus
- Which of the following is a sign that an insect is probably safe to eat?
- hairy body
- dull coloration
- long antennae
- How many eyes do most spiders have?
- 4
- 6
- 8
Professional
- What’s Earth’s true shape?
- Oblate spheroid
- Sphere
- Flat
- Roughly how old is Earth?
- 4.54 billion years
- 6,000 years
- 4.54 million years
- 6,000 million years
- What is the axial tilt of the Earth?
- 23.5 degrees
- 12.7 degrees
- 24.5 degrees
- 17.5 degrees
- The Earth’s average distance is ______________ kilometers from the Sun.
- 149,597,000
- 9,300,000
- 93,000,000
- 1,495,970,000
- The Earth is a _________________ planet.
- terrestrial
- jovian
- gas giant
- asteroid
- Earth’s atmosphere consists mostly of?
- Oxygen and nitrogen
- Hydrogen and helium
- Carbon dioxide and argon
- Oxygen and hydrogen
Mystery woman
April 3, 1934
- She is known for being an expert on chimpanzees, having studied with them over 55 years.
- She has no formal training or education in the primatology field when she started her study about chimpanzees.
- Her findings with the chimpanzees was that they were extremely similar to humans, as they had the ability to make tools, and had a social system.
- She devised the Banana Club, a feeding system to get as close as possible to the chimps. She ate the same food as the chimpanzees and spent time in the trees with them.
- She travels at least 300 days a year, remaining an advocate for chimpanzees.
- She is a vegetarian and advocates the diet for ethical, environmental, and health reasons.