Class 7 English — Chapter 1: The Tiny Teacher
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What you'll learn
- ▸Characteristics and Communication of Ants
- ▸The Anthill: Home and Social Organization
- ▸The Queen Ant and Colony Foundation
- ▸The Life Cycle of an Ant
- ▸Care and Training of Young Ants
- ▸Cohabitation in an Anthill
- ▸Moral Lessons from the 'Tiny Teacher'
Chapter Summary
--- PAGE 1 --- 0754CH01 1 The Tiny Teacher Though so very small, the ant is unbelievably intelligent and hard-working. Among the various kinds, the commonest ant is black or red. Ants live in comfortable homes called 'anthills'. 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. The story of an ant's life sounds almost untrue. But people have kept ants as pets, and have watched their daily behaviour closely. So we know a number of facts about this tiny, hard-working and intelligent creature. An ant uses its feelers or antennae to 'talk' to other ants by passing messages through them. Watch a row of ants moving up or down the wall. Each ant greets all the others coming from the opposite direction by touching their feelers. Reprint 2024-25 --- PAGE 2 --- An Alien Hand 2 There are many kinds of ants.…
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- What are the comfortable homes where ants live called? Get Solution →
- According to the text, how do ants 'talk' to each other? Get Solution →
- Who is described as the mother of the entire ant colony's population? Get Solution →
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Did you know?
- 💡 An ant can astonishingly lift and carry objects 50 times its body weight.
- 💡 The largest ant colony ever discovered stretched over 3,700 miles across Europe.
- 💡 Some queen ants can astonishingly live for up to thirty years.
- 💡 Ants do not have lungs; they breathe through tiny holes across their bodies.
- 💡 Ants are farmers too, cultivating fungi for food in their underground nests.
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