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PARATAXONOMIST GUTPELA SAVE TEST 2006 - PART 1 YOUR NAME: ………………………………………………….. 1. Write names of all body parts you know for the following insect drawings: A

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C

D

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2. These are chewing mouthparts. Name their parts (= explain what is lr, md, mx, and lb).

3. What activity are used for these legs and to which insect group they belong?

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4. Write names of all body parts you know for the following caterpillar drawings: A

B.

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5. What adults will hatch out from these larvae?

(a) ................................................ (d) ......................................... (g) ...................................... (b) ................................................ (e) ......................................... (h) ...................................... (c) ................................................ (f) ......................................... (i) ...................................... 6. Draw various types (shapes) of antenna found in insects and how they are called:

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7. What is on these pictures? A B C

A .......................................................................................................................................

B .......................................................................................................................................

C ....................................................................................................................................... 8. To what insect groups belong these wings? A. .................................. B. .................................. C. ..................................

D. .................................. E. ..................................

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9. Write all stages of development from egg to adult: FOR A BUTTERFLY: EGG …………………………………………… ADULT FOR A GRASSHOPPER: EGG …………………………………………… ADULT FOR AN ANT: EGG …………………………………………… ADULT FOR A TERMITE: EGG …………………………………………… ADULT FOR A BARK BEETLE: EGG …………………………………………… ADULT FOR A FLY: EGG …………………………………………… ADULT FOR A DRAGONFLY: EGG …………………………………………… ADULT FOR A LOUSE: EGG …………………………………………… ADULT FOR A SPIDER: EGG …………………………………………… ADULT FOR A MILIPEDE: EGG …………………………………………… ADULT

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10. What type of feeding (feeding mode) caused the damage you can see on these pictures? A………………………………. B………………………………

11. What type of feeding (feeding mode) do you see on these pictures? A………………………………. B………………………………

C…………………………………. D………………………………….

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12. Describe the life cycle of this bark beetle

13. These termites (A) and ants (B) belong to the same species but look different. What is the work of different forms in their nests and what is their life cycle?

A

B

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14. Explain the following terms (words): What is a parasite? ….. Give an example of an insect parasite: What is a herbivore? ….. Give examples of insect herbivores: What is a predator? ….. Give examples of insect predators: What is a pollinator? ….. Give examples of insect pollinators: What is a host plant? Give examples of an insect and its host plants: What is a social insect? Give examples of social insects: What is an epiphyte? Give examples of epiphytes:

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15. Who are these four parasite species and what do you know about their life cycles?

A: B: C: D: 16. What happened here, from the left picture to the right picture?

17. What is happening here?

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17. Give examples of insect families with at least some species with following feeding habit: - mining on leaves: - chewing leaves: - skeletonizing leaves: - sap-sucking on leaves or stems: - sap-sucking on roots: - chewing on roots: - boring in stems: - boring in fruits: - boring in seeds: - chewing on flowers: - sucking other insects: - chewing other insects:

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19. Explain the following terms concerning insect shape and colour and give three examples of insects for each of them: - mimicry - cryptic coloration - warning coloration 20. Draw a picture of a well-spread specimen of: A) a pinned moth: B) a glued beetle: 21. What is on these pictures?

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22. Write the name for each collecting method, where you can use it and what insect groups can be best collected by it (use the next page) Method 1 Method 2 Method 3

Method 4 Method 5 Method 6

Method 7 Method 8 Method 9

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Question 22. continues Method no. - Name of the method - Where to use it - Insect groups collected Method 1. Method 2. Method 3. Method 4. Method 5. Method 6. Method 7. Method 8. Method 9.

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23. What information must be included on a permanent insect label: give an example 24. Explain the following terms concerning plants: - latex (and give examples of plants with latex): - DBH - leaf area - bark texture (and give examples of different bark texture) 25. Describe the main parts of the flower

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26. Draw a compound leaf and give examples of plants with compound leaves 27. How do we call these types of roots? What is their function (purpose) for the tree?

28. What growth forms of plants do you know? Give an example for each growth form. 29. Explain what is: PRIMARY FOREST: SECONDARY FOREST:

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30. What plants are inhabited by ants? Give as many examples as you can. Explain why are ants living in these plants?

31. Why is this insect visiting flower and what is it doing there?

32. Draw a picture how the fig looks inside, how the fig wasps get there and what they do there.

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33. What are the orders (and families) of the following insects: [write on the picture]

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34. What are the orders of the following insects:

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35. What are the following insects? caterpillars to

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36. Identify the following caterpillars to families

A ………………………………………….. B ………………………………………….. C ………………………………………….. D ………………………………………….. E ………………………………………….. F ………………………………………….. G ………………………………………….. H ………………………………………….. I ………………………………………….. J ………………………………………….. K …………………………………………..

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37. Identify the following caterpillars to families:

A B C D E F G H I J K L

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38. Identify the following caterpillars to families A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O

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39. Identify the following caterpillars to families A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O

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40. Identify these moths and butterflies to families

A ....................................................................... B ....................................................................... C ....................................................................... D ....................................................................... E ....................................................................... F ....................................................................... G ....................................................................... H ....................................................................... I ....................................................................... J .......................................................................

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41. Identify the following moth adults to families:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R

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42. Identify the following beetles to families: A B C A .............................................. B .............................................. C.............................................. D.............................................. E.............................................. F.............................................. D E F G.............................................. H.............................................. I.............................................. J.............................................. K.............................................. G H I J K

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43. Identify the following insect adults to orders and families: A B A...............................................

B............................................... C............................................... D...............................................

C D E............................................... F............................................... G...............................................

E F G............................................... H...............................................

G I...............................................

H I 44. Each of these chrysomelid beetles belongs to a different subfamily. Can you identify it?

A .................................... B ................................ ........ C ......................................... D .................................... E ................................ ........ F .........................................

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45. Identify the following insect adults to orders and families: A B C D E F G H A B C D E F G H

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46. Identify these plants to family, genus, and species:

GENUS - SPECIES - FAMILY

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B ………………………………………………………………………………………….

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D ………………………………………………………………………………………….

E ………………………………………………………………………………………….

F ………………………………………………………………………………………….

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47. Identify these plants to family, genus and species (use next page)

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Question 47 continues: GENUS - SPECIES - FAMILY

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48. - How can you protect yourself against malaria? - How can you find out if you have malaria? - How can you treat malaria? 49. One of the Wannang patrol members was hit by a falling tree. He is unconscious (ai raun), does not breathe and is bleeding from a wound on his head. What will you do - write in steps, starting from the most urgent ones which you will do first.

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50. This table shows the number of individuals from 5 caterpillar species reared from four Macaranga host species (MAA, MAF, MAU and MAW):

MAA MAF MAU MAW THYR001 3 THYR003 66 THYR004 1 15 3 3THYR012 3 2 3THYR013 5 2 - Which Macaranga species has the most species rich community of thyridid caterpillars? - Which moth species is the most specialized? - Which moth species is generalist? 45. Describe what is the meaning of this graph.

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1 2 3 4 5 6No. of Macaranga host species

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PARATAXONOMIST GUTPELA SAVE TEST 2006 - PART 2 Task 1: 1. Open file TestPiksa.jpg in the My Documents directory 2. Improve the photo in Photoshop, replace the kanaka 1 cm caption with a proper one, clean the dirty spot on the left hand side, make the picture look good by any procedure you like to use. 3. Resize the photo to the width of 750 pixels 4. Save the photo as .bmp (bitmap) file TestPiksaName.bmp where Name = your name. 6. Start a new Powerpoint presentation 7. Create the first slide of the presentation including the following title: "TEST SLIDE" and then paste the TestPiksa.bmp picture to this slide 8. Save this Powerpoint presentation in My Documents directory as PresentationName.ppt where Name = your name. Task 2: Open Excel, start a new file, design a permanent insect label including formatting for printing, and save it in My Documents folder as LabelName.xls where Name = your name. Task 3: 1. Open TestData1.xls file 2. This is a table showing results of moth study. You can chose any analysis you like and create one graph from this data. Then start a Word document, paste the graph there and write a short description of what is your analysis and what results you showed in the graph. 3. Save the Excel file as TestData1Name.xls and the written report as ReportName.doc where Name = your name. Task 4: 1. Open TestData2.xls file 2. In the Data sheet there is a table showing moths feeding on 2 Macaranga species (MAA, MAQ). Use this table for answer questions in the Questions sheet. 3. Save the result as TestData2Name.xls where Name = your name.