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Insect Orders (Grade 7+)

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Insect Orders (Grade 7+)

                                                                 Kingdom – Animals
                                                                   Phylum – Arthropoda
                                                                     Class – Insecta
                                                                        Orders -


                                                                 Looking at 9 Orders of Insects
                                                                 1) Order –  Coleoptera
                                                                      • Family – Beetles
                                                                  2) Order –  Dictyoptera
                                                                      • Family – Cockroaches
                                                                       Family – Mantids
                                                                 3) Order –  Diptera
                                                                      • Family – True Flies
                                                                 4) Order –  Lepidoptera
                                                                      • Family – Butterflies
                                                                      • Family – Moths
                                                                 5) Order –  Ephemeroptera
                                                                      • Family – Mayflies

                                                                 6) Order –  Hymenoptera
                                                                      • Family – Ants
                                                                      • Family – Bees
                                                                      • Family – Wasps
                                                                 7) Order –  Odonata
                                                                      • Family – Dragonflies
                                                                      • Family – Damselflies
                                                                 8) Order –  Orthoptera
                                                                      • Family – Grasshoppers
                                                                      • Family – Katydids
                                                                 9) Order –  Phasmida
                                                                      • Family – Stick-Insects



Other Insect Orders –
Collembola - Springtails
Dermaptera - Earwigs
Diplura Two - Pronged Bristle-tails
Embiopter - Web Spinners
Grylloblatodea
Hemiptera - True Bugs
Isoptera - Termites 
Mallophaga - Biting Lice
Mecoptera - Scorpionflies
Neuropter - Lacewings
Plecoptera - Stoneflies
Protura
Psocoptera - Bark and Book Lice
Siphonaptera - Fleas
Siphunculata - Sucking Lice
Strepsiptera Stylops
Thysanoptera - Thrips
Thysanura - Silverfish
Trichoptera - Caddis Flies
 

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Insect Orders (Grade 7+)
Insect Orders (Grade 7+)
Insect Orders (Grade 7+)
Insect Orders (Grade 7+)

Testing

Insect Orders – Multiple Choice Test (for content comprehension): Mutiple Choice Test.

Insect Orders – Matching (for vocabulary comprehension): Quiz

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