Butterfly Web Activity
Fox Mill Elementary School


Students:
Answer the questions below by visiting the internet sites:

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  1.  What name do we use to describe the changes that a butterfly goes through?  
       Click on Life Cycle.
       http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

  2.  Name the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle.  
       Click on Life Cycle.
       http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

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  3.  How many species of butterflies and moths are there in the world?
      http://library.thinkquest.org/C002251/cgi-bin/default.cgi?language=english&mode=chapter&outputmode=0&navmenu=1&javascript=1&chapter=0&section=7

  4.  What is the main occupation of the caterpillar (larva)?  
       Click on All About Butterflies and read in the Diet section.
      http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

  5.  What do butterflies eat?   (The answer is one word)  _n_ __ __ __ __ __
       Click on Life Cycle and click on Adult.
       http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

  6.  Where do butterflies get their food?
       Click on All About Butterflies and read in the Diet section. 
       http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

  7.  Where would you find a chrysalis?
        http://www.acnatsci.org/education/L2L/Four_Stages_of_Development.html
        http://www.naturepark.com/pladyinf.htm

  8.  Do butterflies hibernate?
       Click on Illustrated Dictionary.  Click on a letter.
      http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

  9.  Do butterflies migrate?
       Which ones?
       Click on Life Cycle and click on Adult.
       http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/
 
 

10.  Name three things butterflies need to survive.
       Click on All About Butterflies.  Click on Senses.
         http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/ 

11.  Do butterflies use camouflage and mimicry?
        How?
        Click on All About Butterflies.  Click on Defense Mechanisms.
        http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

12.  From what animals do butterflies have to protect themselves?
       Click on All About Butterflies.  Click on Defense Mechanisms.
       http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

13.  What do butterflies need to fly?  (Wings is not the answer.)
       http://www.butterflyschool.org/new/behav.html

14.  Butterflies are symmetrical in ____________ and ___________.
       http://www.iit.edu/~smart/pearkat/lesson1.htm

15.  A butterfly has ___  (how many) body parts.   What are they?
       Click on Anatomy.
       http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/
 

16.  Butterflies have 6 of these. 
        Click on Anatomy.  Click on Thorax.
        http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

17.  A butterfly's jaws are called __________________ .
        Click on All About Butterflies and read in the Diet section.
        http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/

18.  Butterflies sip liquid food through their __________________ .
       http://library.thinkquest.org/C002251/cgi-bin/default.cgi?language=english&mode=chapter&outputmode=0&navmenu=1&javascript=1&chapter=0&section=1

19.  Where do butterflies go to sleep?
       http://library.thinkquest.org/C002251/cgi-bin/default.cgi?language=english&mode=chapter&outputmode=0&navmenu=1&javascript=1&chapter=0&section=7

20.  Most butterflies are found in what climate or area?
       Click on All About Butterflies. 
        http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/