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A Quiz To Test Your Ant Knowledge
Take this quiz to find out how much you know about ants. They're definitely one of the hardest working insects and we dedicate this quiz to them. Answer the following multiple choice questions and then see your score. Better yet, stump your family and friends by asking them to take this quiz.
1. Worldwide there are about _________ species of ants
3,000
7,500
12,000
18,000
2. An ant can lift 10 times its own body weight.
True
False
3. Which of the following is NOT a role of a queen ant?
Create a new colony
Produce eggs for the colony
Direct worker ants
4. Most ants have how many eyes?
2
3
4
5
5. Queen ants can be very long-lived surviving for a decade or more.
True
False
6. Ants hear by putting their ears to the ground and feeling vibrations
True
False
7. Ants you chemical signals to alert other ants of food sources.
True
False
8. Ants use their antennae to pick up chemical signames from other ants.
True
False
9. Ants breathe through tiny holes are their sides called ____________,
Porta
Tubules
Trachea
Spriacles
10. Which of the following is NOT a way ants use their powerful mandibles?
Carrying
Cutting
Detecting chemical signals
Biting
11. The ant's circulatory system does NOT contain blood.
True
False
12. What do you call a person that studies ants?
Lepidopterist
Melittologist
Ornithologist
Myrmecologist
13. Which of the following is NOT a function of ant antennae?
Communication
Smell
Feel
Temperature regulation
14. Ants do not have a heart.
True
False
15. Ants have a hard, waterproof exoskeleton, which is made of a material called __________.
Chitin
Nail
Shell
Spicule
16. Ants are found on every continent.
True
False