Weaver ant nests are most common in the outer, often uppermost, sunlit branches of trees. The site of energy influx and photosynthesis, this shell of greenery is where most biological action in forests takes place and thus where the majority of resources sought by the ants accumulate. There the ants bind adjacent living leaves into a kind of arboreal tent. Ranging from the size of a baseball to the size of a volleyball but weighing not much more than an inflated balloon, the nests look frail, but they shelter the ants from wind, rain, and rivals. Transpiration,superscript,1,baseline, from their leaf walls creates a built-in HVAC,superscript,2,baseline, system, providing relatively stable temperature and humidity.

paragraph 2,To begin building a nest, a worker pulls at the edge of a leaf, and if she's successful in bending it, nearby ants join her. The workers may stand side by side while gripping the leaf margins, but if the leaves are too far apart, they climb on top of one another and, seizing each other by the waist, form leaf-to-leaf chains that are strong enough to drag the foliage together. Within hours, the nearby leaves are drawn tight and aligned in a nest configuration.

paragraph 3,The name ,begin italics,weaver ant,end italics, comes from the next step, which involves a kind of child labor. In many ant species, the larvae spin silk cocoons in which they transform into adults. But a weaver ant larva does not make a cocoon. Instead, it produces silk at a young age, when still small enough to be held and manipulated by an adult worker. After bearing the larva to the construction site, the worker locates a leaf edge through palpations of her antennae, then lowers the larva's head to it. The larva attaches a silk line to the edge, and the worker then shuttles it back and forth between the leaves, like a weaver working a loom, until the foliage is bound by woven sheets. As a finishing touch, the nest is detailed with tidy entries and internal walls and galleries. The nests, I suspect, can last for years: when the leaves wither, workers bind fresh ones into the structure to replace them.

paragraph 4,Weaver ants avoid the inconveniences endured by most ants, which, as central-place foragers, spend considerable time commuting from one central nest. This is evident in driver ant raids, where hundreds of thousands of ants regularly travel dozens of meters or more. Weaver ants minimize the amount of moving around they do by spacing leaf nests throughout their territory, erecting them wherever their workers are needed and foliage is available for construction. This also makes it easy for them to handle unforeseen events quickly: a worker seeking assistance need only communicate with the ant reserves in the nearest nest.

paragraph 5,Inside the tent, among the brood piles, are smaller workers with shorter limbs. In most polymorphic ants,,superscript,3,baseline, the major workers are scarce and specialized, but with ,begin italics,Oecophylla,end italics,,superscript,4,baseline, the opposite is true, with the majors doing the foraging and nest construction, serving as the workaday ants rather than "soldiers," in the sense of a specialized defensive caste. The minors are less numerous and tend the eggs and small larvae. The physical differences between minors and majors are more modest than in the marauder and driver ants, but the two are relatively distinct, with only occasional intermediates. Typically, the queen is in a nest toward the center of the territory near the top of a crown, though she moves from time to time. Her eggs are distributed among the nests by her workers.

paragraph 6,Because weaving a nest requires an assembly of workers and larvae, one wonders how weaver ant colonies get started. What does the first nest look like? Once, in the Australian outback, I peeled apart two small leaves sewn together at chest level to find four queens and forty workers, the latter each the size of a small major worker in a mature colony, cohabiting in a space the size of a change purse. Making such a tiny nest need not be difficult. Before their first workers are old enough to do the job, the neophyte queens are likely to join forces to hold larvae and weave the nest together.


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"Ranging from the size of a baseball to the size of a volleyball but weighing not much more than an inflated balloon, the nests look frail, but they shelter the ants from wind, rain, and rivals." (Paragraph 1)



What is the effect of comparing the size and weight of weaver ant nests to familiar objects?


1.
The comparisons reveal that the nests serve as practical and spacious homes.

2.
The comparisons reinforce the idea that ants work as a team to build their nests.

3.
The comparisons emphasize that the nests are remarkable and surprising structures.

4.
The comparisons highlight that the primary purpose of the nests is to protect the ants.

Answer:

The comparisons emphasize that the nests are remarkable and surprising structures.

Explanation: The text told the size and density of the nests.

The comparisons emphasize that the nests are remarkable and surprising structures.

A nest is a container created by some animals to house eggs or young. Even though nests are most commonly associated with birds, they are built by members of all vertebrate classes as well as some invertebrates.

Among the species that use burrow nests are puffins, shearwaters, some megapodes, motmots, todies, the majority of kingfishers, the crab plover, miners, and leaf. The majority of burrow nesting species create a chamber at the end of a horizontal tunnel they bore into a steep (or almost vertical) earth cliff.

The location where birds deposit their eggs and rear their young is called a nest. The holes that are present on tree trunks, tree branches, etc., are used by birds to build their nests. A sizeable sum of money or other assets is referred to as a nest egg.

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How did the WPA help encourage literacy among U.S. citizens?
They wrote a book about the impact of a literate nation.
They took several reading surveys of a diverse American population.
They made and distributed posters promoting reading.
They gathered literacy data to compare with other countries.

What themes do you predict will be developed in The Outsiders? What evidence leads you to make this prediction?
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Look back at the predictions you made about themes that might be developed in The Outsiders. How does Chapter 2 change your prediction, if at all? What details either support your prediction or suggest other themes?

What are readers waiting to find out by the end of Chapter 5 of The Outsiders? What events keep them from learning how the story's conflict will be resolved?

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How can reviewing a completed test prior to submitting it help you to earn the most points possible?

Based on information in the section “Fearing the Worst,” what can you infer about Dolly’s family?

Which of the following represents an external conflict? Psyche longs to know the identity of her mysterious husband. Niobe refuses to honor the goddess Minerva. Diana hunts a wild boar. Minerva declares herself more beautiful than all the goddesses.

What is the benefit of maintaining academic integrity in the classroom?

For a piece of writing to qualify as a poem, it has to:
use lines and stanzas, not paragraphs
include words that rhyme with each other
have a regular rhythm or pattern of accents
present a message about feelings

The calling out of a child's number is similar in today's society to

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calling out a child's complete name

announcing the child's age

stating the date

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How did the memories influence the development of Jonas’s character?
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The memories helped Jonas see color and know what the changes of weather can do.

As Jonas begins to receive memories and learn more about the world before sameness, he naturally begins to think more independently. He becomes frustrated with his community and makes his own decision to leave the community.

Jonas’s character developed through the memories because it gave him the power of the receiver.

The memories developed Jonas’s character by letting him gain the same knowledge as the Giver as the Giver loses the memories.

What kind of text structure does the author MOSTLY use in paragraph 3 to explain the realationships between air pressure and storms?

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Read this excerpt from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. How do the Ghost of Christmas Present’s words affect Scrooge?


“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,” returned the Ghost, “will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”


Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.


“Man,” said the Ghost, “If man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked can’t until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”


Scrooge bent before the Ghost’s rebuke, and trembling cast his eyes upon the ground. But he raised them speedily, on hearing his own name.


Answer choices that were given:


A. They make Scrooge more open and understanding of other people’s needs and wants.

B. They teach Scrooge that human life is fickle and insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

C. They rewind Scrooge of his earlier harsh behavior and make him feel regret and shame.

D. They cause Scrooge to feel pity for Bob Cratchit’s family and their humble way of life.

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What can you infer about the family unit’s interaction with each other?
Group of answer choices

The family unit’s interaction demonstrates how they became a family unit.

The family unit’s interaction demonstrates how they have no real feelings for each other, are satisfied with the conformity of individuals in the community, and believe everything the elders tell them.

The family unit’s interaction demonstrates how they help each other with their training in the community.

The family unit’s interaction demonstrates how much they love each other and would do anything for each other.

Read the following sentences. Victor was lonely until he heard that birds of a feather flock together. He took out his baseball card collection and began to talk about baseball with William. The two baseball fans became good friends. What is the meaning of the adage or proverb birds of a feather flock together? Friendship makes it difficult to feel lonely. Make friends by talking about sports. People spend time with others who are similar to them. You rarely see different animals hanging out with each other.

In the text, the author discusses how what you choose to eat matters. How can you help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by making different choices about what you eat?

What kinds of details should be used to create an effective anecdote?

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Which sentence contains a double negative?


I have no time for supper because we are late.

Don't light the candle next to the curtain.

We didn't see nothing at the store.

I can't find my basketball anywhere.

During the nineteenth century few parts of the worlds were out of the ___ of the British influence.
A. Circuitous
B. Circumspect
C. Circumference
D.Orb
E. Configuration
F. Figurative
G. Cyclic
H. Encyclopedic

Which statement best evaluate the effect of adding descriptive detail in the
second version of the passage?
Passage 1:
I tried counting sheep to fall asleep. Soon I thought of a pasture with a
fence. On one side were a lot of sheep. My mind thought of each one
jumping over the fence. To make things more interesting. I pictured
sheep with different colors of wool. After counting over 100 ewes, 1
realized I still couldn't sleep
Passage 2
I hoped I could count sheep to make myself fall asleep. My mind's eye
quickly created a green pasture with long flower strewn grass
surrounded by a small wooden fence. Outside the fence, a long line of
sheep waited. My mind pictured them jumping up and over the wooden
rails one by one. Some were black, and some were white. A few had
spots or interesting markings on their wool. Each had a facial
expression that was wise or soothing or happy. But after counting
more than 100 ewes, I realized that my brain was as wide awake as
A It helps the reader picture what the narrator is imagining
OB. It helps the reader understand that the narrator is not telling the
truth
C. It gives the passage a more frightening feeling
D. It highlights the tender and loving one of the passage