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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 Caste and Division of Labor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do sweat bees primarily burrow?
(a) Near water.
(b) In trees.
(c) In garbage dumps.
(d) Underground.

2. Which of the following terms expresses the ideal of group production with the disregard of individual needs?
(a) Fillionomics.
(b) Ergonomics.
(c) Tershonomics.
(d) Hedonomics.

3. Which of the following groups of ants does the least amount of physical work within the colony?
(a) Fertile female ants.
(b) Sterile female ants.
(c) Queen ants.
(d) Male ants.

4. How much of the Amazon rainforest is composed of ants and other insects?
(a) One-fourth.
(b) One-third.
(c) All of it.
(d) One-half.

5. Which of the following groups of ants spends the most time self-grooming?
(a) Queens.
(b) They all spend equal amounts of time self-grooming.
(c) Minor workers.
(d) Major workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following procedures is NOT altered when an individual undergoes sociogenesis?

2. How many queen ants do the Formica Yessensis of Japan have in one colony?

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

4. Which of the following is NOT a group of insects?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways biomass is measured?

(see the answer key)

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