Question: What place in Brazil do mandolins play an important role?  
Answer: Venezuela

Question: What is the sound of mandolin associated with in the west country? 
Answer: regional genres of the Venezuelan Andes

Question: Who are the famous Venezuelen mandolinist? 
Answer: Alberto Valderrama, Jesus Rengel, Ricardo Sandoval, Saul Vera, and Cristobal Soto.

Question: What type of music has mandolins played? 
Answer: mandolin orchestras have traditionally played many arrangements of music written for regular orchestras or other ensembles

Question: Where do traditional mandolin orchestras remain popular? 
Answer: Japan and Germany

Question: What do the structure of a contempory traditional orchestra consist of?
Answer: first and second mandolins,

Question: What are smalled ensambles composed of? 
Answer: two mandolins, mandola, and mandocello,

Question: What are the mandocellos usually tuned like? 
Answer: cello

Question: In what phylum are insects classified? 
Answer: arthropod

Question: How many parts comprise the body of an insect?
Answer: three-part

Question: In addition to the head and abdomen, what is the other major section of an insect's body?
Answer: thorax

Question: What type of exoskeleton do insects have?
Answer: chitinous

Question: How many pairs of jointed legs do insects have?
Answer: three

Question: What does insect mean in latin?
Answer: cut into sections

Question: What is the Latin word for insect?
Answer: insectum

Question: Insects are a class of what?
Answer: invertebrates

Question: Insects have what kind of skeleton?
Answer: chitinous exoskeleton

Question: An insects 3-part body includes a throat, abdomen, and what?
Answer: head

Question: How does the lifecycle of most insects typically begin?
Answer: hatch from eggs

Question: What is the primary constraint on the physical growth of an insect?
Answer: inelastic exoskeleton

Question: What stage of development differentiates a 4-stage metamorphosis from a 3-stage metamorphosis, notably absent in the latter?
Answer: pupal stage

Question: What is the term given to denote the series of stages involved in the development of an adult insect?
Answer: nymphal

Question: What era is attributed to the findings of enormous fossilized dragonflies with extremely long wingspans? 
Answer: Paleozoic

Question: Insects hatch from what?
Answer: eggs

Question: Insects growth is constrained by what?
Answer: the inelastic exoskeleton

Question: An insects developement involves a series of what?
Answer: molts

Question: How many stages of metamorphosis does an insect go through?
Answer: 4-stage

Question: The most diverse insects coevolved with what?
Answer: flowering plants

Question: What is the term for the gait of an insect characterized by walking in alternating triangles?
Answer: tripedal

Question: What larval adaptation is common to underwater insects?
Answer: gills

Question: What species of insect has the capability to walk on the surface of water?
Answer: water striders

Question: What do crickets do in order to attract or repel a mate?
Answer: stridulate

Question: What variation of beetle in the Coleoptera order communicate by way of light?
Answer: Lampyridae

Question: Insects move by walking, flying, and what else?
Answer: swimming

Question: Which insects walk, fly, and swim?
Answer: Adult

Question: Insects walk the ground in alternating what?
Answer: triangles

Question: Insects walking in an alternating triangle is called a what?
Answer: tripedal gait

Question: What can insects do with each other in a variety of ways?
Answer: communicate

Question: By what method do humans often try to control the spread of insects?
Answer: insecticides

Question: What portion of the biosphere would be devastated absent the complex pollination role of insects?
Answer: terrestrial

Question: What insect provides a tangible economic benefit via the production of silk?
Answer: Silkworms

Question: What insect is known to consume carrion?
Answer: blow-flies

Question: Humans consider most insects as what?
Answer: pests

Question: Humans can control insects using what?
Answer: insecticides

Question: Insects have the potential to damage what?
Answer: crops

Question: Insects can damage crops by feeing on sap, fruits, or what?
Answer: leaves

Question: Silkworms are used by humans for producing what?
Answer: silk

Question: What is the Latin term for insect?
Answer: insectum

Question: Who introduced the Latin term for insect, borrowing from the Greek vernacular?
Answer: Pliny the Elder

Question: How many sections does an insect's body appear to be divided?
Answer: three

Question: Which Greek philosopher used the term entomos to describe insects, making reference to their notched bodies?
Answer: Aristotle

Question: In what year is it typically reported that the word insect was first documented in English?
Answer: 1601

Question: Insect means to have a notched or divided what?
Answer: body

Question: Insects are cut into how many sections?
Answer: three sections

Question: Who gave this class of life the name "insect"?
Answer: Aristotle

Question: In what year did the word "insect" appear in a document?
Answer: 1601

Question: Who introduced the Latin version of the word "insect"?
Answer: Pliny the Elder

Question: From what period do researchers believe that the oldest known full-body impression of a flying insect originates?
Answer: Carboniferous

Question: What is believed to be the oldest known insect fossil?
Answer: Devonian Rhyniognatha hirsti

Question: In what year did Tufts researchers reportedly uncover what is believed to be the oldest known impression of a flying insect?
Answer: 2008

Question: What is the term for a mandible with two articulations?
Answer: dicondylic

Question: With what type of insect is a dicondylic mandible associated?
Answer: winged

Question: What higher-level is constantly up for debate and research?
Answer: phylogeny

Question: The higher-level phylogeny is of the what?
Answer: arthropods

Question: What kind of impression has been uncovered by a University?
Answer: full-body

Question: A University discovered a primitive flying what?
Answer: insect

Question: How old is the primitive plying insect found by the University?
Answer: 300 million-year-old

Question: In addition to Carboniferous, what other insect order is inclusive of extant groups, stem groups and Paleozoic groups?
Answer: Early Permian

Question: To what measurement, in cm, did the wingspans of giant dragonfly-like forms reach?
Answer: 55 to 70

Question: Higher levels of what substance possibly contributed to the phenomenon of gigantism? 
Answer: oxygen

Question: How many million years ago is the Permian period believed to have begun? 
Answer: 270

Question: The most significant mass extinction of insect groups is commonly ascribed to what period?
Answer: Permian-Triassic

Question: Late Caboniferous and Early Permain are what kind of orders?
Answer: insect orders

Question: The insect orders include both of what?
Answer: extant groups

Question: The insect orders include a number of what kind of groups?
Answer: Paleozoic groups

Question: What kind of giant insect form had wingspans?
Answer: dragonfly-like forms

Question: How wide were the wingspans of the dragonfly-like forms?
Answer: 55 to 70 cm

Question: What type of defense did plants adaptively evolve in response to insects?
Answer: chemical

Question: What is the term for a plant-eating insect?
Answer: herbivores

Question: What do many insects adaptively utilize in self-defense from predators?
Answer: plant toxins

Question: How is toxicity sometimes visibly displayed by insects as a warning?
Answer: colors

Question: What is an example of a mutually beneficial process indicating the coevolution of plants and insects?
Answer: pollination

Question: Insects are considered terrestrial what?
Answer: herbivores

Question: What were insects the major selection agents of?
Answer: plants