TedEd: Inside the Ant Colony

After mating, male ants​ (a)   and female ants​ (b)  

• die
• try to establish a new colony
• start a dance party
• build a nest for the winter

Fertilized ant eggs become:

• female workers

• queens

• male drones

• male soldiers

Which of the following is not a way that ants can communicate with each other?

• Touch

• Language

• Sound

• Chemical signals

How should ants move to cover as much area as possible when they are searching?

• in squiggly lines

• in straight lines

• in zig zags

• all of these

Engineers make systems that work like ant colonies to:

• make something scary

• do tasks with simple parts

• make tiny machines

• to destroy them