This document describes an insect quiz game that is played by a first grade teacher and students during nature walks in the spring. The game involves students finding and examining insects in their natural habitat, collecting a few specimens, and then answering multiple choice questions about insects. The questions cover topics like the number of butterfly species worldwide, whether any bugs are extinct, the name for someone who studies insects, the name of invisible insects, why bees are black and yellow, and which option listed is not an insect. The document provides the questions, multiple choice answers, and later reveals the correct answers along with short informative statements about each topic.

1. Did You Know…
Insect Quiz Game?
Questions Kids Ask About Insects
By Janice Vaughn

2. Did You Know?… Insect Game
• Introduction
• During this game you will answer questions about insects. I am a first grade
teacher and we play this game during the spring. We take a nature/discover
walk to find different insects. We examine them in their own habitat and then
collect a few. We then ask questions, that lead to more questions, we start an
insect board with facts, misconceptions, and what we have learned.
• Will you reign as Queen Bee or King Bee ?
• Good luck on your insect journey!

3. How many different kinds of butterflies are
there in the whole world?
A
• Know one
knows.
B
• 2,500,000
C
• 110,000

4. Are there any extinct bugs?
A
• No
B
• Yes
C
• We
don’t
know
yet.

5. What is a person called who studies insects?
A
• Entomologist
B
• Etymologist
C
• Ecologist

6. You are doing
great… Keep
going!

7. What is the name of the insect that you cannot
see?
A
• Gnats
B
• No-see-
um
C
• mites

8. Why are bees black and yellow?
A
• They
actually
are
brown
and
yellow.
B
• To
blend
in with
the
flowers.
C
• To warn
others
that they
sting.

9. Which one is not an insect?
A
• A spider
B
• An ant
C
• A
grasshopper

10. Insect Facts – Q1
Q. How many different types of butterflies are there?
A. There are 110,00 different species.

11. Insect Facts – Q2
Q. Are there any extinct bugs?
A . Absolutely yes; there are an estimated 20 -30 insects that are extinct.

12. Insect Facts – Q3
Q. What is a person called that studies insects?
A. An entomologist.

13. You are correct!


14. Insect Facts Q4
Q. What is the name of the insect you cannot see?
A. No- see-ums

15. Insect Facts – Q5
Q. Why are bees black and yellow?
A. They are black and yellow to warn others that they sting.

16. Insect Facts – Q6
Q. Which is not an insect?
A . The spider. It is not an insect it is an arachnid.

17. Thank you for
playing!