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