The Science Project: The Amazing Ants
For the science project, our group has chosen ____ special insects.
____ are very social.
They are ____ old as the T-Rex.
____ appear in Aesop’s stories.
They use a special chemical ____ communicate.
Can you guess what ____ are?
Yes, the ____ is ants.
We want to share with you what we have learned about these ____
How Many Ants Are on Earth?
We ____ see ants come out of nowhere.
Like humans, they live ____ everywhere in the world, except a few extremely cold places including Antarctica.
As of 2018, ____ were over 7 billion people on Earth.
Then, how about ____
According to scientists, there are about one million ants for ____ human in the world.
Though each ant hardly weighs anything, one million ants are as heavy as ____ human being weighing about 62 kilograms.
What Is the Ant Society Like?
Ants live in colonies ____ have lots of residents living together.
Within a colony, there ____ usually three different types of ants.
There is the queen, and what ____ does her entire life is lay eggs.
The second ____ of ant is the male that helps the queen produce these eggs.
The third type of ant ____ the worker.
Worker ants are all female and do very important jobs, like caring for eggs, defending the ____ and collecting food.
How Do Ants Communicate?
Though ants do not speak ____ humans, they actually have a “language.”
Ants produce ____ chemical called a pheromone to communicate with one another.
By ____ the chemical, they can exchange information about food or danger.
Ants also use touch for ____
For example, ____ an ant finds food, it passes on the good news by rubbing its body on its neighbor.
____ an ant has legs covered with very sensitive hairs, it can sense even the smallest touch.
FUN FACTS ABOUT ANTS
Some ____ ants live up to 30 years.
Some ants can carry things that are ____ times their own body weight.
Ants do not ____ lungs but breathe through small holes in their bodies
An ____ has two stomachs.
One stomach holds food ____ itself, and the other holds food to share with others.
Most ants can swim and live 24 ____ underwater.