Chapter 8

Question 1

The study of the way animals behave and why they do

Answer 1

Animal Behavior

Question 2

is a way of learning that involves a reward or punishment

Answer 2

Conditioning

Question 3

learning to get used to something after being exposed to it repeatedly

Answer 3

Habituation

Question 4

ways that animals act without being taught to act in these ways

Answer 4

Innate Behavior

Question 5

learning from past experiences and reasoning

Answer 5

Insight Learning

Question 6

a natural or intuitive way of acting or thinking.

Answer 6

Instinct

Question 7

behavior that occurs only after experience or practice

Answer 7

Learned Behavior

Question 8

Learning by watching and copying the behavior of someone else is called

Answer 8

Observational Learning

Question 9

is an involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement in response to a stimulus

Answer 9

Reflex Behavior

Question 10

an innate mechanism that controls the physiological activities of an organism that change on a daily, seasonal, yearly, or other regular cycle.

Answer 10

Biological Clock

Question 11

a roughly 24 hour cycle in the physiological processes of living beings

Answer 11

Circadian Rhythm

Question 12

is any way that animals share information

Answer 12

Communication

Question 13

working together with others

Answer 13

Cooperation

Question 14

Awake during the day

Answer 14

Diurnal

Question 15

Passing the winter in a sleeping or inactive condition

Answer 15

Hibernation

Question 16

use of symbols to communicate

Answer 16

Language

Question 17

the pairing of an adult male and an adult female for the purpose of reproduction

Answer 17

Mating

Question 18

the movement of animals from one place to another.

Answer 18

Migration

Question 19

Awake during the night

Answer 19

Nocturnal

Question 20

In these species, members of the group depend completely on one another

Answer 20

Social Animal

Question 21

This means that they defend an area that typically includes their nest and enough food for themselves and their offspring

Answer 21

Territorial

Question 22

are invertebrates in Phylum Echinodermata

Answer 22

Echinoderm

Question 23

are invertebrate chordates that retain all four defining chordate traits as adults.

Answer 23

Lancelet

Question 24

invertebrate chordates that lose some of the four defining chordate traits by adulthood

Answer 24

Tunicate Chordates