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Vocabulary
100

This island in Panama is considered as "one of the best places to observe army ants."

What is Barro Colorado
100

Army ants move in groups mainly because of this disability.

What is blindness

100
Outside of Joseph Scheer, many see moths as this; a word that means something that is annoying.

What is a pest

100
Scheer's new hunting process saw him using this person's garden.

Who is Mark Kingensmith

100

When something is very different, unusual, and interesting because its rarely seen.

What is exotic

200

Army ants form different shapes by linking these parts of their body together.

What are their legs

200

Moving in high numbers means that it's easy to kill their food, or this word meaning a being below another in the food chain.

What is prey

200

Scheer's use of this allows us to see the details of moths that we would not be able to with just our eyes.

What are digital tools

200

Since Scheer was using camera film, he had to use this device to get more detail out of the pictures.

What is a scanner

200

Army ants work together for a common cause, so there's a lot of this.

What is cooperation

300

During the 20 days that the queen lays her eggs, the other army ants form bivouacs, or this for a simpler term.

What are nests

300

Remember that body part? Well, they're also used to form this where there's a gap between to places.

What is a bridge
300

"That can't be a moth!"  Everyone said this when seeing Scheer's images and this is a word that means  a feeling or an action that is a direct result of something else.

What is a reaction

300

The amount of time to scan a single moth.

What is 20 minutes

300

Scheer's pictures, and scanning, is meant to do this to the details; a word meaning to keep in place.

What is retain

400

This part of the army ant's body is powerful and shaped like a fishhook.  Its attack is powerful, but causes it to lose its life.

What is the jaw

400

蟻 is "ant" in Japanese.  One part of this word is translated into this word in English, which means a strong feeling of allegiance.

What is loyalty

400

Scheer's first moth hunt process meant opening a window and turning this on because moths are attracted to it.

What is the light

400

According to the passage, you would need this tool to see the details shown in Scheer's pictures of moths.

What is a microscope

400

The fan of the army ants gets wider, so there is this verb.

What is broaden

500

This group would use that same body part of the army ant to close up wounds by hooking the flesh together.

Who are the Amazonian tribes.

500

Hunting for food prompts ants to form this shape 14 meters wide.

What is a fan

500

This group of people complained about the amount of moths that invaded the building due to Scheer's method.

Who are the building cleaners

500

In terms of the story itself, the charm of moths is considered this as you are reading.

What is the main idea

500

Waiting until a later time, such as when it's raining before a baseball or soccer game.

What is delay.

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