Practice identifying insects and learning how bees, ants, and butterflies live, move, and grow.
Read each problem carefully. Draw or write your answer in the space provided.
Learning about tiny animals with six legs
Science - Grade K-1
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An insect has 6 legs. Count the legs on the insect in the picture. Does it have 6 legs?
- 2
Circle the insect: bee, dog, fish.
- 3
Bees visit flowers. What do bees collect from flowers?
- 4
Ants often walk in a line. Why do ants follow each other?
- 5
A butterfly starts life as an egg. What hatches from the egg?
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Look at the butterfly. What body part helps it fly?
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Write one place where you might see an ant.
- 8
True or false: Insects have 8 legs.
- 9
Match the insect to its home: bee, ant. Choices: hive, anthill.
- 10
What do we call a young butterfly before it changes into a butterfly?
- 11
Look at the pictures. Which insect has black and yellow stripes?
- 12
Name one way a bee helps plants.
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Circle the body part that insects use to smell and touch: legs, antennae, wings.
- 14
Draw a butterfly and show two wings.
- 15
Bees, ants, and butterflies are all insects. Name one thing they have in common.