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1. What recurring animated Disney character, first introduced in the film "Pinnocchio," advises us to "always let your conscience be your guide."

Hip-Hop Grasshopper

Loud&Proud Locust

Conscientious Katydid

Jiminy Cricket

In the 1940 Disney film, Jiminy Cricket makes his way into Geppetto's home and workshop for a place to sleep. When the woodcarver wishes upon the wishing star for a "real boy," the little marionette Pinocchio comes to life. Jiminy joins him on his adventures throughout the film on his quest to become a real boy after being appointed by the Blue Fairy to serve as Pinocchio's conscience. In later years, Jiminy Cricket was known for singing the most iconic Disney song, "When You WIsh Upon a Star."

Explanation

In the 1940 Disney film, Jiminy Cricket makes his way into Geppetto's home and workshop for a place to sleep. When the woodcarver wishes upon the wishing star for a "real boy," the little marionette Pinocchio comes to life. Jiminy joins him on his adventures throughout the film on his quest to become a real boy after being appointed by the Blue Fairy to serve as Pinocchio's conscience. In later years, Jiminy Cricket was known for singing the most iconic Disney song, "When You WIsh Upon a Star."

2. Which law calculates the ambient air temperature based on the number of cricket chirps, like this Snowy Tree Cricket, in a timed period?

Dolbear's Law

The Law of Probabilities

Murphy's Law

The In-laws and Outlaws

One way to calculate the ambient air temperature using the Snowy Tree Cricket’s chirp’s is employing Dolbear’s Law, named after Amos Dolbear, an American physicist and inventor. To convert cricket chirps to degrees Fahrenheit:
• Just count the number of chirps in 14 seconds, then add 40 to get the temperature.
• The number you get will be an approximation of the outside temperature.
• Example: 30 chirps + 40 = 70° F

Explanation

One way to calculate the ambient air temperature using the Snowy Tree Cricket’s chirp’s is employing Dolbear’s Law, named after Amos Dolbear, an American physicist and inventor. To convert cricket chirps to degrees Fahrenheit:
• Just count the number of chirps in 14 seconds, then add 40 to get the temperature.
• The number you get will be an approximation of the outside temperature.
• Example: 30 chirps + 40 = 70° F

3. The Handsome Trig, also known as the Red-headed Bush Cricket, has special characteristcs that include:

Being the only species in the genus Phyllopalpus

They are active both night and day

They mimic the appearance of a Bombardier Beetle that sprays foul smelling liquid

All of the above

The handsome trig (or red-headed bush cricket, Phyllopalpus pulchellus). "Trig" comes from Trigonidiinae, the name for the winged bush cricket subfamily. Males may call at night or during the day. It is a loud, quickly repeating series of staccato rasps. Calling males often position themselves between two leaves, or on a leaf that curls around them, creating chamber to amplify and project their sound. Their mouthparts include broad-ended palps that look like boxing gloves. The increased size allows Trigs to sense chemical properties of surfaces in their habitat.

Explanation

The handsome trig (or red-headed bush cricket, Phyllopalpus pulchellus). "Trig" comes from Trigonidiinae, the name for the winged bush cricket subfamily. Males may call at night or during the day. It is a loud, quickly repeating series of staccato rasps. Calling males often position themselves between two leaves, or on a leaf that curls around them, creating chamber to amplify and project their sound. Their mouthparts include broad-ended palps that look like boxing gloves. The increased size allows Trigs to sense chemical properties of surfaces in their habitat.

4. The male Mole Cricket is quite the performer. How does it ensure its performance will be heard?

It pays an agent to get the best bookings

It perches high up in the trees to broadcast far and wide

Itty bitty microphones

It finds a natural "bandshell" shaped area so that its song carries acoustically

Male mole crickets have an exceptionally loud song; they sing from a burrow that opens out into the air in the shape of an exponential horn. The song is an almost pure tone, modulated into chirps. It is used to attract females, either for mating, or for indicating favorable habitats for them to lay their eggs.

Explanation

Male mole crickets have an exceptionally loud song; they sing from a burrow that opens out into the air in the shape of an exponential horn. The song is an almost pure tone, modulated into chirps. It is used to attract females, either for mating, or for indicating favorable habitats for them to lay their eggs.

5. How do crickets make their chirps?

They have a voice box

Stridulating their legs together

Stridulating their wings together

Verrry tiny tambourines

Stridulation is the process of making sound by rubbing certain body parts together. Male crickets produce musical chirping sounds by rubbing a scraper located on one forewing along a row of about 50 to 250 teeth on the opposite forewing. It's like the sound of fingernails clicking on a comb, but people can't hear it like that because the crickets click so fast.

Explanation

Stridulation is the process of making sound by rubbing certain body parts together. Male crickets produce musical chirping sounds by rubbing a scraper located on one forewing along a row of about 50 to 250 teeth on the opposite forewing. It's like the sound of fingernails clicking on a comb, but people can't hear it like that because the crickets click so fast.

6. How many species of crickets can be found around the globe?

200

900

1,500

3,000

There are about 900 species of crickets in the family Gryllidae distributed around the world and are known for the musical chirping of the male.

Explanation

There are about 900 species of crickets in the family Gryllidae distributed around the world and are known for the musical chirping of the male.

Is It Hot--or Not?

1. What recurring animated Disney character, first introduced in the film "Pinnocchio," advises us to "always let your conscience be your guide."

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. Which law calculates the ambient air temperature based on the number of cricket chirps, like this Snowy Tree Cricket, in a timed period?

3. The Handsome Trig, also known as the Red-headed Bush Cricket, has special characteristcs that include:

4. The male Mole Cricket is quite the performer. How does it ensure its performance will be heard?

5. How do crickets make their chirps?

6. How many species of crickets can be found around the globe?