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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 Colony Odor and Kin Recognition.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the oldest ant fossil found to date?
(a) 18 million years old.
(b) 800 million years old.
(c) 8 million years old.
(d) 80 million years old.

2. How many levels of genealogical relationships do sweat bees have with one another?
(a) 21.
(b) 18.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways biomass is measured?
(a) Weighing.
(b) Collecting.
(c) Drying.
(d) Photographing.

4. What is the smallest collection of ants that can still be considered a colony?
(a) 50.
(b) Five.
(c) 500.
(d) 5000.

5. Which of the following is NOT a ways Wilson describes foreign ants being treated?
(a) They are accepted, but withheld food.
(b) They are forced to lock mandibles in a dual.
(c) They are pestered with constant nipping and leg pulling.
(d) They are killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following groups within an ant colony produces the strongest identification odor?

2. How do most Idaho harvester ants die?

3. At what university were radioactive ants found in the 1960s?

4. What species of ant carries large quantities of freshly cut vegetation into underground nests as deep as six meters?

5. Which of the following lands is NOT free of ant species?

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