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Question 1

What is Animal Evolution?

Answer 1

Animals evolved through a process known as evolution which is the change in a species’ characteristics over several generations. Evolution can be caused by mutation, migration, natural selection, genetic drift, and non-random mating.

Question 2

What is Animal Behavior?

Answer 2

Animal behavior includes all the ways animals interact with other organisms and the physical environment

Question 3

What is a Skeletal?

Answer 3

relating to or functioning as a skeleton.

Question 4

What is a Muscular?

Answer 4

The muscular system is composed of specialized cells called muscle fibers.

Question 5

What is skin?

Answer 5

Skin is the largest organ in the body and covers the body’s entire external surface.

Question 6

What is a Digestive System?

Answer 6

it is where your body breaks down food and absorbs nutrients.

Question 7

When did vertebrates first appear?

Answer 7

about 518 million years ago

Question 8

What is a smooth muscle?

Answer 8

At a cellular level, smooth muscle can be described as an involuntary, non-striated muscle.

Question 9

What is a cardiac muscle?

Answer 9

Cardiac muscle (or myocardium) makes up the thick middle layer of the heart.

Question 10

What is a skeletal muscle?

Answer 10

Skeletal muscle is one of the three significant muscle tissues in the human body.

Question 11

What is the small intestine?

Answer 11

The small intestine (also referred to as the small bowel) is the specialized tubular structure between the stomach and the large intestine (also called the colon or large bowel) that absorbs the nutrition from your food.

Question 12

What is a large intestine?

Answer 12

The large intestine is responsible for processing indigestible food material (chyme) after most nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine.

Question 13

What is a gallbladder?

Answer 13

The gallbladder is a small, pouch-like organ in the upper right part of your tummy

Question 14

What is the bile?

Answer 14

Bile is a fluid that is made and released by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.

Question 15

What is a liver?

Answer 15

The liver filters all of the blood in the body and breaks down poisonous substances, such as alcohol and drugs.

Question 16

What is absorption?

Answer 16

the process or action by which one thing absorbs or is absorbed by another.

Question 17

What is a anus?

Answer 17

The anus is the last part of the digestive tract. It’s at the end of the rectum.

Question 18

what is a Stimulus

Answer 18

a signal that causes an organism
to react in some way.

Question 19

what is a Response

Answer 19

an organism’s reaction to a
stimulus. (All animal behaviors are caused
by stimuli)

Question 20

what is Instinct

Answer 20

behavior without being taught (not
learned); a response that is inborn (coded in
the genes) and performed correctly the first
time.

Question 21

what is Learned Behavior

Answer 21

change in behavior
based on practice or experience.

Question 22

what is Imprinting

Answer 22

A
newborn recognizes and
follows the first moving object they see (e.g., duckling follows human)

Question 23

what is Conditioning

Answer 23

a specific stimulus or
response leads to a good or a bad outcome
(e.g., Pavlov’s dog, salivate at the sound of
a bell).

Question 24

what is Trial-and-Error Learning

Answer 24

repeated
practice that results in a reward and avoids
behaviors that result in a punishment.

Question 25

what is what is Insight Learning

Answer 25

using what you know
to solve a problem.

Question 26

what is Communication

Answer 26

animals use sounds,
scents, body movements to communicate.

Question 27

what is Pheromone

Answer 27

a chemical released by one
animal that affects the behavior of another
animal of the same species (e.g., ant
pheromone trail).

Question 28

what is Aggression

Answer 28

a threatening behavior that
one animal uses to gain control over another
animal. Aggression is due to competition
over limited resources (food, water, space,
shelter, and mates).

Question 29

what is Courtship Behavior

Answer 29

behavior to prepare for
mating.

Question 30

what is Group Behavior

Answer 30

beneficial for safety in
numbers and sharing (cooperation) in work,
food, water, shelter.

Question 31

what is Circadian Rhythms

Answer 31

behavior cycles that
occur over a day (e.g., awake/work daylight,
sleep night time).

Question 32

what is Hibernation

Answer 32

sleep/reduced activity during
winter in which the need for food has stopped.

Question 33

what is Migration

Answer 33

routine, seasonal journey of an
animals from one place to another and back
again.

Question 34

what is evolution

Answer 34

the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

Question 35

what are Tissues

Answer 35

: group of same cells that have the same
function (activity; do the same thing)

Question 36

what are Organs

Answer 36

contains different tissues but performs a specific function (activity); example: heart – pumps blood; stomach – store food; begins breakdown solid food

Question 37

what are Organ Systems

Answer 37

group of different organs working together to perform a major (complex) function

Question 38

Homeostasis vs. Dynamic Equilibrium

Answer 38

Dynamic Equilibrium: a state of balance in nonliving, physical systems