Below are the answers to the reading exercise: “About Ants“. If you haven’t done this reading lesson, please do it before looking at the answers. Click here: Reading Exercise About Ants
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Answers
- abdomen
- thorax
- stinger / abdominal stinger
- compound eyes
- mandibles
- F
- The passage shows that the antennae are “elbowed” which means they contain a joint and can bend.
- NG
- The passage states that queen ants have wings. But it does not state if they are the only types of ant with wings. We don’t know if the other types of ants have wings or not. So, the key word was “only”.
- T
- The passage shows that metamorphosis happens during the pupal stages when the larva change into adult ants.
Comments: Questions 6 and 8 were quite hard so don’t worry if you got them wrong. Only band 8 or 9 students will have been successful with those questions.
