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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 Symbioses Between Ants and Plants.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who removes a newly fertilized queen ant's wings?
(a) Her partner removes them.
(b) Her wings dissolve after fertilization.
(c) She removes them herself.
(d) Her young remove them.

2. How many queen ants do the Formica Yessensis of Japan have in one colony?
(a) Hundreds of queens.
(b) Millions of queens.
(c) One queen.
(d) Thousands of queens.

3. How long is the desert ant's life expectancy?
(a) 36 days.
(b) 16 days.
(c) 26 days.
(d) 6 days.

4. Which of the following is NOT a way ant species deal with their dead?
(a) Abandoning the dead.
(b) Burying the dead.
(c) Discarding the dead.
(d) Cannibaling the dead.

5. How do ants communicate?
(a) Through chemical emissions.
(b) Ants do not communicate.
(c) Through antennae movement.
(d) Through a complex pattern of squeaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many queens are present in a Monogyny ant colony?

2. Which part of an ant's body is used most during kin recognition?

3. How do most Idaho harvester ants die?

4. Which of the following groups of ants is most likely to eat a dead nest mate?

5. Where do sweat bees primarily burrow?

(see the answer key)

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