What sensory modalities are used by the message receivers in honeybee waggle dance communication? (Check all that apply.)

Question

_____  auditory
_____  autonomic
_____  chemosensory
_____  proprioceptive
_____  visual

Clarify question:
What is the key concept addressed by the question?

What type of thinking is required?

Gather Content:
What do you already know about the waggle dance in bees? What other information is related to the question? 

Choose Answer:
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?

Reflection on Process:
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?

Answer 1

__X__  auditory
_____  autonomic
__X__  chemosensory
_____  proprioceptive
__X__  visual


Clarify question:
What is the key concept addressed by the question?
The waggle dance behavior in bees and what sensory inputs are used.

What type of thinking is required?
This is an analyze question, you are given several different sensory information modalities used by bees and are being asked to choose the ones that will allow the bee to get information from the waggle dance.

Gather Content:
What do you already know about the waggle dance in bees? What other information is related to the question? 
This question comes from the section of the textbook that discusses the role of the waggle dance in honeybee communication. All of the choices are sensory modalities, but not all of them are used to gather information from the dance.

Choose Answer:
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
The dance produces signals via sight, sounds, and chemical information.

Reflection on Process:
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?
Did you get the question right? The key to this question is to figure out how the dance provides information to the other bees.