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Motion of ants:
  1. Select a place where you find ants.
  2. Spread a large sheet of white paper on the ground and keep a little sugar on it.
  3. You will find ants crawling on the sheet of paper soon.
  4. For any one ant, try and make a small mark with a pencil near its position when it has just crawled on to the sheet of paper.
  5. Keep marking its position after a few seconds as it moves along on the sheet of paper.
  6. After some time, shake the paper free of the sugar and the ants.
  7. Connect the different points you have marked, with arrows, to show the direction in which the ant was moving.
  8. Each point you have marked shows where the ant moved to, in intervals of a few seconds.
Important!
This is a activity-based exercise. Write the answer in a sheet and compare it with the solution given below.