Ants carrying leaves may indicate their food habit is an eater of plants or

Most ants are omnivores and are okay with eating plants, seeds, nectar, and even animals. Ants are also opportunistic in their feeding habits, which mean that they can easily adapt to the environment and will eat what they can to remain alive

the farther away the object is from the central star (the sun) it's gravitainal pull on the object is weaker when it is farther

explanation:

the framers of the constitution insisted that federal judges be nominated instead of elected due to their desire to have judges above the shifting whims of the masses.

the hope, whether achieved or not, was that federal judges would only be beholden to the law and that by not having judges be elected, they would be protected if that law dictated an outcome that ran counter to popular opinion.