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Basic Civil Engineering first year Notes- Chapter 4 Building.pptx
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2. What does it look like?
Earthworms are not
insects because they
have more than six legs
and five hearts. An
Earthworm can be
brown, pink or
red. Earthworms can be
1cm long or 4 meters
long.
3. Where do Earthworms live?
Earthworms live
anywhere in the world
where there is soil and
food! They can live in a
worm farms too.
6. Interesting facts!
Did you know that
earthworms do not have
Teeth and that all
Earthworms lay
eggs! There are green and
blue earthworms and did
you know that lumbricus
terrestris is a another
name for earthworms.
8. Ladybirds are invertebrates because they have no back bone.
Ladybirds are also insects because they have six legs. They have a
hard shell on top of their transparent wings. The colour of its shell
is red and it has black dots. Ladybirds have three legs on each side.
9. Ladybirds live in grasslands and woodlands.
Ladybirds live in your garden too.
11. Several little ladybirds could stand on a small coin.
A lady bird stretches its wings.
Some ladybirds sleep in winter away from its predators.
Ladybirds gather at autumn.
Ladybirds are not all ladies they can be male or female.
12.
13. Ladybugs have six legs.
Ladybugs have a hard
shell over their wings
to keep their wings
safe. Ladybugs have a
hard cover. ladybugs
have head, a thorax
and an abdomen.
19. What does it look like?
An ant looks hairy and scary. Ants
look disgusting too. They look
dangerous as well.
An ant is a insect because they
have six legs and three body
parts.
They look tiny.
26. What Mosquitoes look like?
Mosquitoes are insects
because they have six legs
and three body parts. The
three body parts are head,
thorax and abdomen. On
the head there are antennae,
large dark eyes and a
proboscis. On the abdomen
there are wings.
27. Where does it live?
Mosquitoes live around water like ponds, lakes and even
swimming pools.
28. What do mosquitoes eat?
Mosquitoes eat blood and male mosquitoes drink
nectar from flowers.
32. What does it look like?
Stick insects and leaf insects are insects and
they have six legs. Stick insects are
invertebrates because they have no back
bone.
Stick insects look like sticks because they have a
stick in their name. Stick insects have three
body parts a head, thorax and an abdomen.
33. Where do stick insects live?
Stick insects and leaf
insects live in gum
trees because they
need to be near sticks
and they eat gum
leaves.
Stick insects live under
sticks so they can
camouflage.
34. What do stick insects eat?
• Stick insects and leaf insects love to eat gum
leaves. Stick insects drink water. Stick insects
eat roses. Stick insects eat raspberry bushes
too.
35. What are stick insects predators?
Stick insects and leaf insects
predators are birds and
spiders.
Stick insects are the best
36. Interesting facts?
Stick insects and leaf insects can walk up side
down. Stick insects can make different shapes.
They can move when they are hanging.
37.
38. What does it look like?
Spiders are not insects.
Spiders are hairy.
Spiders have eight legs
with joints.
They have a mouth with
jaws.
39. What does it eat?
It eats flies, insects and small lizards.
40. Does it have predators?
Daddy-long-legs spiders and white tailed spiders.
41. Interesting facts.
Red back spiders bite and are poisonous to people.
Boy red back spiders do not build webs and they don’t have a
red mark.
42.
43. An ant has three body parts because ants are insects. Some or
every ant has a stinger they can squirt poison, sting poison or
bite poison. Ants are very strong! They can lift up twenty
room mates! Can you lift that much? Ants have jaws to bite.
44. Ants live in a hole called a
colony and it’s under
ground near tree bark.
49. inver tebrates because
they have no backbone.
They are not insects
because they have eight
legs and insects have
six. They also have two
body par ts a
cephalothorax and an
abdomen. They also have
eight eyes and no
antennae. They have no
wings because they can’t
fly. But they are hair y.
They also have joints in
their legs and a
spinneret. The spinneret
is joined to its abdomen.
50.
51. Spiders can live under
ground, in trees, on its
web and in forests.
56. What bees look like?
Bees have a black and
yellow abdomen.
Bees are invertebrates
because they have no back
bone and have their
bones on the outside.
Bees have six legs and
wings attached to its
thorax.
57. Where do bees live?
Bees live in hives.
Bees stay where there are
lots of flowers because the
nectar helps them to stay
alive.
Bees can also live in boxes
made by farmers.
58. What do bees eat?
Bees eat nectar from
flowers.
They also eat honey left in
a honey jar.
59. What are bees predators?
Bee’s predators are birds,
spiders, bears and even
wasps.
60. Interesting facts
A bees group can look like a very big
branch. Bees groups can be as
big as a dog. Bees are so
hairy they look like a spider.
There can be 5000 bees in a
hive.
62. What spiders look like?
Spiders are not insects, because it has eight legs. A
spider has a hairy body. Spiders have eight eyes too.
Spiders have a spinneret. A spider has two body parts
and the two body parts are called a head and an
abdomen.
