Dancing Bees

Which sentence summarizes the section “Learning The Waggle Dance”?

• Bees dance as they look for flowers that provide pollen and nectar.

• Pesticides are causing bees to make more mistakes when they do the waggle dance.

• While Ken Tan was studying bees and their waggle dances, he was stung by them many times.

• Scientists learned that when young bees watch older bees dance, they become better dancers.

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Read the sentence from the introduction [paragraphs 1-6].

They dance to help each other find delicious flowers around the beehive.

How does this sentence support the main idea of the article?

• It explains why bees do the waggle dance.

• It describes the effects of pesticides on bees.

• It explains why bees look for delicious flowers.

• It describes how bees move when they do the waggle dance.

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Which detail shows that scientists have taught bees to do certain tasks?

• The scientists who ran the study recorded videos of European honeybees in a lab. The bees were living

  in groups called colonies.

• The scientists compared two groups of young bees. In the first group, young bees could watch older

  ones moving their bodies.

• In 1973, an Austrian biologist went a step further. He figured out what the dance moves meant.

• More recently, scientists have trained bees to pull a string. They have also trained bees to teach each other new skills.

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Which selection from the article helps the reader understand what the waggle dance looks like?

• In the first group, young bees could watch older ones moving their bodies. Bee biologists call their dance the "waggle dance."

• It wiggles so fast that it looks blurry while it is dancing. Then the bee circles back around to repeat that motion again and again. It forms a figure-eight pattern.

• The bees were only 10 days old, but there was already a difference in their dance skills. The ones that had watched older bees move were better dancers.

• After touching the poisons, the bees were not the same. The waggle dance changed. The bees also started making more mistakes.

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Based on the article, a biologist is _____.

• a scientist who only studies insects

• a scientist who only studies bees

• a scientist who studies living things

• a scientist who only studies flowers

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According to the article, why are pesticides bad for bees?

• When bees touch the pesticides, their waggle dance improves.

• When bees touch the pesticides, their waggle dance changes and make more mistakes.

• When bees touch the pesticides, they find more food faster.

• When bees touch the pesticides, it has no effect on them.

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