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Grasshoppers and Crickets by Susan Ring

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Book: Grasshoppers and Crickets
Author: Susan Ring
ISBN: 978-0-02-202595-3

Introduction: Meet the Insects
1. In what habitat do grasshoppers live in?
2. Do crickets live in grassy places?  Yes   No
3. What are the three things grasshoppers and crickets have in common?
4. What is the exoskeleton?
5. How many wings do grasshoppers and crickets have?
6. Describe their front wings.
7. What do the front wings cover and protect?
8. What enables grasshoppers and crickets to jump very high?
9. How can you tell a grasshopper and a cricket apart?
10. What is a compound eye?
11. How many compound eyes do grasshoppers have?
12. How does a grasshopper breath?
13. What are spiracles?
14. What does stridulation mean?
15. How far can a grasshopper propel itself?
16. What is a tympanum and what does it do?
17. What do grasshoppers eat?
18. What terrible thing can grasshoppers do to farmers?
19. What types of animals/reptiles/insects eat grasshoppers?
20. How do grasshoppers protect themselves?
21. How many different types of grasshoppers exist?
22. How big is the smallest grasshopper?
23. How big is the largest grasshopper?
24. What are “flowers of the jungle”?
25. “Flowers of the Jungles” are also known as ____________________________________.
26. Where can you find painted grasshoppers?
27. What is the name of the grasshopper that oozes a smelly, foamy liquid when it senses danger?

Chapter 2: A Closer Look at Crickets
28. Do female crickets sing?
29. What is the name of the cricket that helps you figure out the temperature?
30. How can you tell the outside temperature with the help of a tree cricket?
31. How do crickets hear?
32. In what culture do crickets bring good luck?
33. According to the story, “The Cricket’s Cage,” what problem did the builder have with the emperor?
34. How did the cricket help the builder?
35. What is the name of the cricket that lives underground?
36. How did the Mole Cricket get its name?
37. What do the front legs of the Mole Cricket look like?
38. What do they use their front legs for?
39. How do their mouths work?
40. Where does the stone cricket live?
41. How does the Ant-Loving Cricket eat?
42. Where would you find Weta Crickets?
43. Where would you find the Cooloola Monster?

Chapter 3: Grasshopper and Cricket Babies
44. What is a nymph?
45. As nymphs grow, they _________________.
46. Grasshoppers and crickets molt about ___________ to ____________ times during their lifetime.

Chapter 4: Grasshopper and Cricket Cousins
47. Give two examples of insects that look like grasshoppers and crickets.
48. Why are Katydids good imitators?

Conclusion: Grasshoppers, Crickets, and People
49. What is the name of the group that grasshoppers and crickets have been placed in by scientist?
50. What does orthoptera mean?
51. What do Entomologists do?

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