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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 differentiates aldates from other ants in a colony?
(a) Coloration.
(b) Long antennae.
(c) Wings.
(d) Reproductive organs.

2. What happens in during pleometriosis?
(a) Multiple queens work together to physically eliminate a powerful queen.
(b) Multiple queens battle for power within a colony.
(c) Multiple queens from one colony start multiple nests that do not relate.
(d) Multiple queens start a colony together.

3. What is another way of defining pheromonal communication?
(a) Chemical communication.
(b) Attack communication.
(c) Liquid communication.
(d) Group communication.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT an achievement obtained in the goal toward understanding reductionism?

2. What month of the year is considered the "nuptial flight" month for ant species?

3. How many ants are contained in each hectare of soil in the Amazonian rainforest?

4. Which of the following is NOT a segment in an ant's body?

5. What species of ant carries large quantities of freshly cut vegetation into underground nests as deep as six meters?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is altruistic behavior in ant colonies defined?

3. What are the most common ways through with an ant colony becomes polygynus?

4. Why are male ants typically neglected in taxonomic studies?

5. How did the study of swallows affect the way scientists viewed spatial distribution?

6. What defense mechanism is unique to the Asian ant species known as Camponotus Saundersi?

7. What is the most common form of communication between ants, and how is it expressed?

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

9. Why does Wilson think vertebrate animals are heavily favored in science books?

10. How is the workload divided between major and minor workers?

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