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Social Insects: Ants and Termites

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13 questions
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This assessment covers CKLA Grade 2 Unit 8 Lesson 5: Social Insects - Ants and Termites
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Social insects live alone or in pairs.

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Are ants and termites social or solitary insects?

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The author of this read-aloud made the statement that ants are social insects. What reasons, or facts, did the author give to support this statement?

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Which ant in the colony is the one from which all other ants come?

1

Where do ants build their nests?

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Queen bees and wasps lay their eggs in cells within their nests. Where do ant queens lay their eggs?

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How often does the queen ant leave her nest?

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How is this different from the queen wasp?

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Both honeybees and ants have clever ways of carrying food back to their nests. What are they?

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Categorize some ways that termites are different from ants.
Drag the ways to the correct insect.

  • Complete Metamorphosis
  • Incomplete Metamorphosis
  • Multiple Kings and Queens
  • Only One Queen
  • Males serve colony in multiple ways
  • Males only role is to mate with the queen
  • Ants
  • Termites
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Many people stack firewood on their wooden porches so that it is handy to transport into the house to make fires when it is cold outside. Given what you know about the termite’s eating habits, do you think that this is a good idea? Why or why not?

1

Draw a basic insect and label the main body parts.

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In the read-aloud you heard, “[Termites] can be very destructive if they choose to eat through the walls of a house!” A word that is an antonym of destructive, or that means the opposite of destructive, is the word constructive. Constructive refers to something that is helpful or is making something better.
Drag the statements to the correct word.

  • The engineers built a new bridge over the river.
  • I helped my littel sister learn to tie her shoe.
  • The puppy chewed through my mother's new shoes.
  • The ocean wave destroyed the sand castle I built on the beach.
  • We helped paint flowers in the garden.
  • Constructive
  • Destructive