How do fire ants create floating rafts during floods?
Phenomenon Description: A large mass of fire ants floating on top of floodwaters.
Location: Columbus County
Grade Level or Course: 4th grade
Question: How do fire ants create floating rafts during floods?
Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function
Science Domain: Life Science
NC Standard: LS.4.1 Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations, and behaviors that enable organisms to survive in changing habitats.
NC Objective: LS.4.1.1 Use models to explain that plants and animals have external structures that function to support survival.
Photo Credit: Fire ants cluster in water Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0.jpg
