REVIEW QUESTIONS.
I. THE ANT.
1. Describe an insect.
2. How are the wings of hook-winged insects fastened together in flight?
3. Describe an ant.
4. Describe queen ants and worker ants.
5. What becomes of the queen ant’s wings?
6. Tell me how an ant-hill is begun.
7. Describe an ant-hill.
8. Tell how nurse ants care for baby ants.
9. What can you say of soldier ants?
10. How do the ants make slaves?
11. What insect is called the “ant’s cow”?
12. Tell me about the ants and their cow.
13. How does the ant dress and cleanse its body?
14. What do you know about the farmer ants?
15. What kinds of food do ants eat?
16. How do ants eat?
17. Tell me how ants bury their dead.
18. What do you think about termites, or white ants, being of the same order as other ants?
19. What do you know about parasol ants?
20. How do ants move from one hill to another?
21. Describe the march of an ant army.
22. What do you know about ant acid?
23. What is the opening into an ant-hill called?
24. Have ant-hills more than one gate?
25. What do you mean by a queen ant?
26. How do ants treat each other while they are at work?
27. What becomes of ants during winter in cold countries?
28. Of what use are ants?
29. How can you study ants for yourselves?
30. How do ants carry things?
II. THE EARTH-WORM.
1. To what family of creatures does the earth-worm belong?
2. What can you say about a ring-made creature?
3. How do the rings in a worm’s body increase in number?
4. Has a worm any eyes, or ears, or nose?
5. Tell me about a worm’s mouth.
6. What kind of food does he eat?
7. How does he eat his food?
8. What has he inside his body to help grind his food?
9. Tell me about the worm’s veins.
10. Is a worm “alike at both ends”?
11. What has he at each end?
12. If a worm is cut in two will both parts live?
13. What has the worm instead of feet?
14. What makes the worm’s body so dark?
15. Why is it so hard to pull a worm out of its hole?
16. Tell me how a worm makes its hole.
17. Why does the worm fill itself with earth?
18. What are worm-casts?
19. How do worms help to build the world?
20. What kind of weather do worms like best?
21. How does a worm close up the door of its hole?
22. What becomes of worms in very hot, dry weather?
23. When can you find worms outside their holes?
24. Of what use are worms?
25. Can you tell me about seaside worms?
26. What kinds of houses do tube-worms make?
27. Can earth-worms feel?
28. Do they harm crops or grass?
29. Is there any worm which has teeth?
III. THE FLY.
1. How many wings has a fly?
2. What has a fly instead of the second pair of wings?
3. Tell me about a fly’s eyes.
4. Describe a fly’s mouth.
5. Does a fly chew or suck its food?
6. What care does the mother-fly take of her eggs or her young?
7. Do flies have queens or live in swarms, as bees do?
8. Where do flies place their eggs?
9. What can you tell me of the changes from the egg to the full-grown fly?
10. How does the fly come from the pupa-case?
11. What things do flies eat?
12. How is it that a fly can run up a pane of glass?
13. How can a fly walk on a ceiling?
14. Will you describe the fly’s feet?
15. How does the fly make its buzzing sound?
16. What is a box-fly?
17. Tell me of some of the queer ways of flies.
18. What do flies do when cold weather comes on?
19. What do we mean by a swarm of flies?
20. Of what use are flies?
21. What harm do flies do?
22. Tell me of some of the fly’s enemies.
23. Is a Spanish fly a true fly?
24. At what part of a fly’s life is it like a worm?
25. What is a fly in amber?
26. Tell me the names of some kinds of flies.
27. Why do people dislike flies?
IV. THE BEETLE.
1. Into what two classes are insects divided because of their way of taking food?
2. To what family of insects does a lady-bird belong?
3. With what is a beetle’s body covered?
4. In what is a beetle like a crab?
5. Describe a beetle’s wing-covers.
6. Where are the beetle’s flying wings?
7. What does the beetle do with his wing-covers when he flies?
8. Describe a beetle.
9. What can you say of Mr. Beetle’s colors?
10. Which is the largest family of insects?
11. Why have people studied beetles so much?
12. What changes does the beetle make before he is full-grown?
13. How much time do some beetles spend as eggs, larvæ, and pupæ?
14. Where are the eggs of beetles laid?
15. Describe a beetle larva.
16. How does this “white worm,” or larva, behave?
17. Does any larva ever have wings?
18. How is the pupa packed in the pupa-case?
19. Where will you be likely to find beetle larvæ and pupæ to study?
20. What does larva mean?
21. What does pupa mean?
22. Tell me how insects breathe.
23. How do beetles injure plants?
24. Describe a rose beetle.
25. What can you tell me about giant beetles?
26. In what country does the prince of beetles live?
27. How do beetles make a noise or tune?
28. Tell me how a sexton beetle buries a mouse or a bird.
29. Why do they do this?
30. How does the pill beetle make a place for her eggs?
31. Of what use are beetles?
32. Who can tell me about a stag beetle?
33. Do all stag beetles have horns?
34. Tell me about the short-coat beetles.
35. Give me the history of the water beetles.
36. What about the beetles that eat furs and clothes?
37. What do beetles eat?
V. THE BARNACLE.
1. What did the old fisherman say of the number of barnacles?
2. Do horse-hairs ever become worms?
3. What was the old fable about a bird coming from a barnacle?
4. What two kinds of barnacles are there?
5. What does an acorn barnacle look like?
6. At what part of a barnacle’s life does he sail about?
7. When does he fasten to one place for life?
8. Describe a stem barnacle.
9. What does the Latin name of the barnacle family mean?
10. What harm can barnacles do to ships?
11. How do barnacles get their food?
12. Describe a barnacle fishing party.
13. What does a barnacle moult as he grows?
14. How do the shell plates of a barnacle become larger?
15. Are barnacles ever eaten?
16. How long can barnacles live out of water?
17. What does a barnacle eat?
18. What is Mr. Barnacle’s fishing-net?
19. What holds a barnacle fast to a rock?
20. At what part of his life is a barnacle like a crab?
21. Where is Mr. Barnacle’s eye?
22. Where is the head part of a stem barnacle?
23. Where are the barnacles’ eggs before they get loose in the water?
24. What can you say of the size of barnacles?
25. What color are barnacles?
26. Tell me what changes a barnacle makes during his life.
27. Describe a barnacle when in the larva state.
28. When we mean more than one larva, what do we say?
29. When we mean more than one pupa, what do we say?
30. What sound do we give theæin these words? (Anesound.)
VI. JELLY-FISH.
1. What are some of the names given to jelly-fish?
2. Why are they called jelly-fish?
3. Why are they called nettles?
4. Why are they given the names of flowers?
5. Can a jelly-fish live out of water?
6. At what part of its life does a jelly-fish grow fast in one place?
7. What do jelly-fish eat?
8. How do they get their food?
9. What are the fishing-lines of a jelly-fish?
10. How does a jelly-fish move through the water?
11. Where are its eyes?
12. Where is the mouth of a jelly-fish?
13. Where are its ears?
14. Why have jelly-fish been called sea-lamps?
15. What can you say of jelly-fish?
16. Tell me of the shape and color of some one jelly-fish.
17. On what plan is the body of a jelly-fish made?
18. To what family do the jelly-fish belong?
19. Which of you can draw the plan of the radiates on the blackboard?
20. Has the jelly-fish much water in its body?
21. Can you tell me of what shapes jelly-fish are?
22. What are some of the names which they get from their shapes?
23. What do you know about jelly-fish before they swim about?
24. What are the long arms of the jelly-fish called?
25. How many rays are there in the jelly-fish pattern?
26. How do the eyes of jelly-fish differ?
27. Did you ever see a jelly-fish in the ocean?
28. What does the light of jelly-fishes look like in the water?
VII. THE STAR-FISH.
1. To what family does the star-fish belong?
2. How many rays have most star-fish?
3. How many rays has the sun-star?
4. What can you tell me about the brittle-star?
5. How do the brittle-stars break into pieces?
6. What kind of coat or skin has the star-fish?
7. Where is its mouth?
8. Do star-fishes swim or crawl?
9. What do they eat?
10. What colors have star-fish?
11. How does the cross-star-fish hatch its eggs?
12. What does the star-fish look like when it leaves the egg?
13. Which one star-fish grows fast for the larva state?
14. Tell me about the quills on the under side of the star-fish.
15. How many kinds of star-fish can you describe?
16. How many families of star-fish are there?
17. What is a sea-cucumber?
18. Draw on the blackboard the sea-egg pattern.
19. What is a sea-egg or sea-urchin?
20. To what family does it belong?
21. Tell me about the urchin’s overcoat.
22. Describe its quills and suckers.
23. Tell me about the size and color of urchins.
24. How does the urchin’s shell increase in size?
25. Where is its mouth?
26. Can urchins bore holes in rock? Tell me about that.
27. How does the urchin walk and climb?
28. Are urchins and sea-cucumbers ever eaten?
29. Describe an urchin shell when the quills are gone.
VIII. THE DRAGON-FLY.
1. What insects have we called flying flowers?
2. What are some of the names given to dragon-flies?
3. Can a dragon-fly do you any harm?
4. What cousins has the dragon-fly?
5. Describe a dragon-fly.
6. What kind of places and weather do dragon-flies like?
7. What do they eat?
8. What has the flight of dragon-flies been called?
9. Tell me about the dragon-fly’s wonderful eyes.
10. Is the dragon-fly an eater or a drinker?
11. Where does the dragon-fly live while egg, larva, and pupa?
12. How do the eggs get into the water?
13. Tell me about the dragon-fly pupa.
14. Tell me about the queer mouth of the larva.
15. Tell me how he catches his food.
16. How does the larva get air while he lives under water?
17. Where did the pattern of a stern wheel, or screw boat, come from?
18. How does the pupa-case change before the dragon-fly comes out?
19. Tell me how the pupa leaves the water when it is to change its state.
20. What can you say about the hooks on its feet?
21. In what way does the pupa get free of its case?
22. Tell me about the wings of the dragon-fly.
23. What care does it take of its wings?
24. How long does the dragon-fly live in the larva state?
25. How long does it live in the perfect state?
26. What can you say of the way the dragon-fly hunts insects?
27. What dragon-fly is called “The Little Lady”?
28. Tell me about a lace-wing fly.
29. Where are the lace-wing’s eggs laid?
30. What do lace-wing larva eat?
31. How long do lace-wings live?
32. Do dragon-flies and lace-wings keep their colors when dead?
33. Tell me how the new dragon-fly expands its wings.
34. Why will the wings bend when they first come from the case?
35. What can you tell me about May-Flies?
36. How long do they live in the perfect state?
37. Do they eat? How do they spend their short lives?