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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20 Collecting, Culturing, Observing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it take a foreign ant to produce a new colony odor?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 20 days.
(c) 10 days.
(d) 40 days.

2. Which of the following is NOT a category of ant communication?
(a) Recognition.
(b) Attack.
(c) Grooming.
(d) Recruitment.

3. What did scientist Santschi find that ants follow, during his experiment in 1911?
(a) The wind.
(b) The sun.
(c) The moon.
(d) The pull of gravity.

4. Which of the following is NOT an example of ritualized communication?
(a) Visual features.
(b) Organ tapping.
(c) Body movement.
(d) Odor excretion.

5. What are bead glands also known as?
(a) Diamond bodies.
(b) Pearl bodies.
(c) Gold bodies.
(d) Emerald bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a caste within ant colonies?

2. Which of the following is NOT a type of symbiosis found in ant species?

3. How many life cycle stages do all ant colonies go through?

4. What happens in during pleometriosis?

5. In the Ivory Coast, what insect species were the blind ants eating, 20 centimeters below the soil?

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