The Science Project: The Amazing Ants
For the science project, our group has chosen ____ special insects.
They are ____ social.
They are as old as the ____.
They ____ in Aesop’s stories.
They use a special chemical to ____.
Can you ____ what they are?
____, the answer is ants.
We want to share with ____ what we have learned about these insects.
How Many Ants Are on Earth?
We often see ants ____ out of nowhere.
Like humans, they live almost everywhere in the world, ____ a few extremely cold places including Antarctica.
As of 2018, there were over 7 ____ people on Earth.
Then, ____ about ants?
According to scientists, there are about ____ million ants for every human in the world.
____ each ant hardly weighs anything, one million ants are as heavy as a human being weighing about 62 kilograms.
What Is the Ant Society Like?
Ants live in colonies which have lots of ____ living together.
Within a colony, ____ are usually three different types of ants.
There is the queen, and what she does her entire life is lay ____.
The second type of ant is the male that ____ the queen produce these eggs.
The third type of ____ is the worker.
Worker ants are all female and do very important jobs, like ____ for eggs, defending the colony, and collecting food.
How Do Ants Communicate?
Though ants do not ____ like humans, they actually have a “language.”
Ants produce a chemical called a pheromone to ____ with one another.
By using the ____, they can exchange information about food or danger.
Ants also use ____ for communication.
For example, if an ant finds food, it passes on the good news by rubbing its body on ____ neighbor.
Since an ant has legs covered with ____ sensitive hairs, it can sense even the smallest touch.
FUN FACTS ABOUT ANTS
____ queen ants live up to 30 years.
Some ants can carry things that are 50 times their own body ____.
Ants do not have ____ but breathe through small holes in their bodies
An ant ____ two stomachs.
One stomach ____ food for itself, and the other holds food to share with others.
Most ants can ____ and live 24 hours underwater.