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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are repletes concerned with?
(a) Brood care.
(b) Reproduction.
(c) Defense.
(d) Food storage.

2. What is morphogenesis?
(a) The procedure through which eggs are fertilized.
(b) The procedure through which cells divide.
(c) The procedure through which embryos become adults.
(d) The procedure through which folic acid becomes nitrogen.

3. Which of the following groups within an ant colony produces the strongest identification odor?
(a) Larvae ants.
(b) Sexually mature ants.
(c) Worker ants.
(d) Queen ants.

4. What species of ant carries large quantities of freshly cut vegetation into underground nests as deep as six meters?
(a) Cretomyrma.
(b) Acromyrmex.
(c) Pachycondyla.
(d) Solenopsis Invicta.

5. From what gland do ants lay odor trails leading to food sources?
(a) Maxillary gland.
(b) Propharyngeal gland.
(c) Metapleural gland.
(d) Dufour gland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the scientific name for the first generation of workers?

2. What is the colloquial name for the ant species "Monomorium pharanaomis"?

3. Of all the landscapes explored in the opening of this novel, which landscape has the highest density of ants per hectare?

4. Where do sweat bees primarily burrow?

5. Which of the following activities did Huber mistakenly think was play among ant species?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is acoustic communication? How is it achieved within an ant community?

2. Why is communication between ants important during transportation?

3. How does the caste system within a given ant colony change according to the demographic?

4. How is altruistic behavior in ant colonies defined?

5. What are some of the ways ant colonies control the numbers of queens present in their colony?

6. What are barrack nests?

7. What claim of colony odor did scientists Jaffe and Sanchez make in 1984?

8. How does Wilson argue the Paleozoic Era changed insects?

9. What are "sibling species?"

10. What happens during the reproductive stage of an ant colony?

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