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

2. Which of the following was the first scientist to discuss kin selection in ants?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Michener.
(c) Lin.
(d) Hamilton.

3. Which of the following scientists was the first to discover the glandular source of colony odor?
(a) Vander Meer.
(b) Jaffe.
(c) Morel.
(d) Blum.

4. How many species of ants were represented in the ant mosaic of Queensland, Australia?
(a) 4.
(b) 34.
(c) 14.
(d) 24.

5. Which of the following lands is NOT free of ant species?
(a) Tahiti.
(b) Polynesia.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Greenland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a way ant species deal with their dead?

2. Which of the following types of ants maintain many different nests although they only live in one at a time?

3. In the woodlands of New England, ants move as much soil as what other insect?

4. Which of the following scientists was NOT involved in the study of hierarchical competition?

5. Which of the following is NOT a criterion used to decide that an ant colony is a unit rather than a group of individuals?

(see the answer key)

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