Public Affairs
Quizzes
Bee
questionnaire
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a)
birds |
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b)
butterflies |
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c)
bees |
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a)
15 |
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b)
70 |
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c)
250 |
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Did you know that bees are under threat from disease? |
Yes / No |
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a)
15% |
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b)
30% |
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c)
50% |
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a)
worse |
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b)
same |
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c)
better |
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Did you know that the Women's Institute has just passed a national
resolution |
Yes / No |
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asking the Government for more funding for research into bee problems? |
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99.4% of those who voted supported the resolution. That means that |
a)
130,000 |
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the number of women in the |
b)
205,000 |
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bee health is |
c)
540,000 |
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You can help bees by growing more flowers in your window box, garden or
farm … |
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8 |
Bees prefer plants that are growing in places that are (tick one or
more) |
a)
sunny |
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b)
shaded |
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c)
sheltered |
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d)
windswept |
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a)
worse |
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b)
better |
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c)
same |
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10 |
Flowers are more attractive to bees if they are grown |
a)
in clumps or patches |
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b)
scattered around |
Honey Bee
Maze
Many
beekeepers move their bee hives in the spring on to agricultural land so that
the bees can fly to the crops and pollinate them. Crops need to be
pollinated to make fruits and vegetables develop.
Help the
Beekeeper’s truck find a way through the maze to put the hives among the blossom
trees in the orchard.
Honey Bee Scramble
Unscramble
the letters in CAPITALS to find the answers
1. A
honey bee has ISX legs and ORUF wings.
2. Honey
bee homes are called SHEVI
3. SHEVI
are made up of wax structures called CHOBONEMY
4. The
small six sided wax compartments inside the SHEVI are called LECLS
5. A
shape that has six QULAE sides and six angles is called a
GEXHANO
6.
RACTEN and LENLOP are two things that bees collect from
flowers and fruit blossom
7.
Bees are attracted to flowers with a TWEES scent
8. LUBE,
LEPRUP and LEWYOL
coloured flowers attract the most bees
9. Beekeepers
care for their ESEB and collect OHENY for us to
use as food
10. To
keep the bees quiet and calm and to TOPS them from
stinging beekeepers use EMOKS
11. Honey bees have a TISNG to protect themselves.
12.
A honey bee can only use its sting once and then it IDES
13. Honey
bees can fly for up to six LIMES to seek flowers
or blossom
14. Honey
bees are very TRANTOPMI to farmers because they pollinate the crops which
makes TUFRI and vegetables develop for us to eat
15. Six
fruits that honey bees pollinate are LEPSAP, ESHICRER,
SEIRNACRREB, REBSERLUBEI, REAPS
and SLUMP.
ANSWERS
Bee
questionnaire
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1 |
the main pollinators of crops in this country are |
bees |
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the number of different types of bees in the |
250 |
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3 |
Did you know that bees are under threat from disease? |
Yes |
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the percentage of bee hive colonies that did not survive in |
30% |
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the situation in |
worse |
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6 |
did you know that the Women's Institute has just passed a national
resolution |
Yes |
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asking the Government for more funding for research into bee problems? |
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99.4% of those who voted supported the resolution. That means that |
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the number of women in the |
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bee health is |
205,000 |
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You can help bees by growing more flowers in your window box, garden or
farm … |
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8 |
bees prefer plants that are growing in places that are |
sunny |
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sheltered |
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9 |
for bees, 'double' varieties of flowers, compared to 'single' varieties,
are |
worse |
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10 |
flowers are more attractive to bees if they are grown |
in clumps or patches |
Answers to Honey Bee Scramble.
1. SIX,
FOUR
2. HIVES
3. HIVES,
HONEYCOMB
4. HIVES,
CELL
5. EQUAL,
HEXAGON
6. NECTAR,
POLLEN
7. SWEET
8. BLUE,
PURPLE, YELLOW
9. BEES,
HONEY
10. STOP,
SMOKE
11. STING
12. DIES
13. MILES
14. IMPORTANT,
FRUIT
15. APPLES,
CHERRIES, CRANBERRIES, BLUEBERRIES, PEARS, PLUMS