View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following species of ants performed poorest during a study of group transportation?
(a) Leptanillinae.
(b) Ecitoninae.
(c) Dorylinae.
(d) Ponerinae.

2. Which of the following scientists told the amusing anecdote about ants that stripped a garden overnight?
(a) Cherrett.
(b) von Hagen.
(c) Holldobler.
(d) Belt.

3. What are thermophilic ants drawn to?
(a) Light.
(b) Water.
(c) Heat.
(d) Sugar.

4. Which of the following is not a myrmecophile noted in the text?
(a) Flies.
(b) Locusts.
(c) Beetles.
(d) Wasps.

5. What type of hierarchy does Wilson use to describe an ant colony?
(a) Dense hierarchy.
(b) Functional hierarchy.
(c) Subliminal hierarchy.
(d) Veiled hierarchy.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Gray's report regarding worker ants of the Myrmecia variant, how long would the workers crouch close to a branch, mandibles open, waiting to spring at prey?

4. During what season of the year do harvester ants struggle with "triple crunch"?

5. According to the study completed in 1984, what other function do the odor glands fulfill in ant colonies?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 206 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample