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A.

Very Short Answer Questions:

1. Word-Meaning from the given chapter:

i)Feelers

Ans: Antenna

ii. Grubs

Ans: Larva of an insect

iii. Barracks

Ans: A building that houses soldiers

iv. Nurseries

Ans: Child’s room

1. Which is the smallest hardworking insect?

Ans: The smallest hardworking insect is an ant.

2. What is the common type of ant?

Ans: Black and red color ants are the most common.
3. Which is the wisest insect?

Ans: The smallest insect, the ant is the wisest insect.

4. Where do ants live?

Ans: Ants live in nests or the anthills.

B. Short Answer Questions:

2 Marks

1. Name the smallest insect you have seen and the wisest
Complete the dialogue. Wisest insect

Ans: Name the smallest insect you have seen and the wisest. Is it the fly? No.
it isn’t. Is it the mosquito? No not the mosquito. Then it must be the worm.
No, none of these. It is the ant the commonest, the smallest but the wisest
insect.

2. Why do people pet ants?

Ans: People pet ants to watch their daily activities. Just like cats and dogs.
People also pet ants.

3. How do ants talk to each other?


Ans: Ants talk to each other by using their antennae or the feelers. They pass
their messages to others by using these feelers.

4. How many types of ants are there?

Ans: There are different types of ants: workers ants, soldiers ants, grub’s
ants and larvae ants

5. What are the rooms of ant workers known as?

Ans: The rooms of the ant workers are known as the reserved quarters. They
utilise it for looking for food.

C. Short Answer Questions:

3 Marks

1. What are the types of rooms in the anthill?

Ans: There are different types of rooms in the anthills: there are separate
rooms for the queen so that they can lay eggs, there are reserved quarters
for the workers. Some rooms are occupied as storehouses and there are also
barracks for the soldier ants

2. How is an ant’s life peaceful?


Ans: All ants have their fixed work to do and that’s why they do not interfere
in the domain of others. In this way, they lead a very peaceful life. Workers
don’t go to live in barracks of soldiers. Nor do soldiers go out in search of
food. Neither worker nor a soldier harms the grubs.

2. Where do the grubs live?

Ans: The residence of grubs are nurseries. The nursery simply means a
child’s room. There are fixed rooms for grubs after the queen and lay eggs.

3. Do ants fight with each other?

Ans: No, they do not fight with each other as their working domains are
differentiated. They perform their work bravely and intelligently.

4. What is the life span of queen ant?

Ans: The lifespan of the queen ant is fifteen years. She is the mother of all
queen the ant population of a particular community or a group.

D. Long Answer Questions:

5 Marks

1. Describe queen ant or mother ant.

Ans: The queen ant is the only ant who is known as the mother ant. She
takes care of all the other ants of the family and she bites her pair of wings
after the wedding flight. She usually takes this flight on a hot summer day.
She leaves the nest and flies high in the sky to meet the drone, which is a
male ant. She bites the wings after coming on earth again and then lays
eggs and does nothing.

2. What happens after the queen ant lays eggs?

Ans: After the laying of the eggs, the eggs grub, hatch the larvae comes out
of it. They are then guarded by the soldier’s ant, cleaned and fed by the
worker ants. Workers are also responsible for their daily exercising, airing
and sunshining. After the three weeks, grubs convert into cocoons and then

Live without any activity and food for the other three weeks. And after the
passing of that three years, cocoons break and becomes ants.

3. What happens once the cocoons break?

Ans: With the breaking of cocoons, perfect ants come into existence. After
that, they are given perfect teaching and training. They got to know about
their duties from the old ants about cleaners, soldiers, workers, boulders etc.
Soldiers train ants to be soldiers, workers teach them to be workers etc. After
the practice of a few weeks or months, they become ready to set out in this
big world to work.

4. What other creatures live in the anthills and why?

Ans: Insects like greenflies, beetles, lesser breeds etc also live in the anthills.
These are allowed by the ants to live in their houses for several reasons.
Some insects provide sweet juices, some give pleasant smells. Some only
play like the pets of humans, Greenfly is known to be the ant’s cow as they
are trained to give honeydew on just the touch to their antennae.

5. What have humans learned from the ants and what have we not?
Ans: Humans have learned a lot from ants and still there are many things
that they can learn from these tiny creatures. This includes discipline, sense
of duty, cleanliness, hard work, taking care of the younger ones at a serious
level. But the most important thing to learn is loyalty. It is important to be
loyal to the land where we live.

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