Leaf Cutter Ant Vocabulary
Name ___________________________ Date ______________
Use these words to fill in blanks in the sentences below:
fungus, social, colony, crawling, symbiosis, compost, exoskeleton, millions, forage.
1. Like other insects, ants have no bones. Instead, they have a hard, outer shell called an _________________.
2. We couldn't see them, but we knew that there were _____________ of ants beneath us, under the forest floor.
3. We guessed because we saw ants _______________ in a single line, crossing the trail ahead of us.
4. They had come out to ______________. Soon we saw more ants crawling in the opposite direction, carrying pieces of leaves.
5. These ants were taking the leaves back to the underground _______________, where they lived with millions more ants.
6. Ants are _____________ insects; they live in organized groups.
7. In the colony, gardener ants would chew up the leaves to make ______________. Soon all the ants in the colony would be eating ____________ that grew on the compost.
8. Ants and the fungus they grow depend on each other. Their relationship is called a ________________.
Name ___________________________ Date ______________
Use these words to fill in blanks in the sentences below:
fungus, social, colony, crawling, symbiosis, compost, exoskeleton, millions, forage.
1. Like other insects, ants have no bones. Instead, they have a hard, outer shell called an _________________.
2. We couldn't see them, but we knew that there were _____________ of ants beneath us, under the forest floor.
3. We guessed because we saw ants _______________ in a single line, crossing the trail ahead of us.
4. They had come out to ______________. Soon we saw more ants crawling in the opposite direction, carrying pieces of leaves.
5. These ants were taking the leaves back to the underground _______________, where they lived with millions more ants.
6. Ants are _____________ insects; they live in organized groups.
7. In the colony, gardener ants would chew up the leaves to make ______________. Soon all the ants in the colony would be eating ____________ that grew on the compost.
8. Ants and the fungus they grow depend on each other. Their relationship is called a ________________.