Final study guide

Question 1

what is a mechanistic behavior?

Answer 1

a mechanistic view or a view of how some factor in the current lifespan caused a behavior

Question 2

what is evolutionary behavior?

Answer 2

behavior based on how the organism has evolved over time

Question 3

what is innate behavior?

Answer 3

innate behavior is a behavior that an animal has at birth

Question 4

what is a learned behavior?

Answer 4

a behavior that an animal has aquired due to a specific event or other repeated stimuli

Question 5

what are the two main types of biological clocks?

Answer 5

the circadian and lunar rhythms

Question 6

what is the circadian rhythm?

Answer 6

the internal clocck of an organism to innately know the time of day it is. This is influenced by the organisms surroundings

Question 7

what is a lunar rythm?

Answer 7

the way the changing of the tides or position of the moon is sensed by an organism

Question 8

what are the main types of communication within animals?

Answer 8

visual, auditory, mechanical, chemical, and electrical.

Question 9

what is visual communication?

Answer 9

communication between animals utilizing specific movements or signs

Question 10

what is auditory communication?

Answer 10

the conveying of information based on auditory sounds

Question 11

what is chemical communication?

Answer 11

communication between organisms through a sharing or emiting of specific chemicals

Question 12

what is electrical communication?

Answer 12

the communication between animals utilizing electric signals shared between the two organisms

Question 13

what is mechanical communication?

Answer 13

communication between two organisms based on mechannical changes in their structure

Question 14

what is a fixed action pattern?

Answer 14

an action that once started cannot be stopped

Question 15

what are non-associative events?

Answer 15

events that do not link to a behavior

Question 16

what are associative events?

Answer 16

events that link to a specific result in a behavior

Question 17

is classical conditioning an associative or non associative behavior?

Answer 17

non-associative

Question 18

is sensualization an associative or non associative behavior?

Answer 18

an associative behavior

Question 19

is habituation an associative behavior?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

is operant conditioning an associative or non associative behavior?

Answer 20

non-associative

Question 21

what is altruism?

Answer 21

the sacrifice of something for the well-being of another

Question 22

what is reciprocal altruism?

Answer 22

the sacrifice of something for another with the expectation of getting something in return

Question 23

what is kin selection?

Answer 23

the helping of another organism due to relation by kin

Question 24

what is ecology?

Answer 24

the study of the interaction of animals and their environment

Question 25

what are the three levels of ecology?

Answer 25

population, community, and global

Question 26

populations are characterized by what five factors?

Answer 26

size, range, density, distribution, and growth

Question 27

what are the two population growth types?

Answer 27

exponential and log

Question 28

what is exponential population growth?

Answer 28

the growth of a population being ever increasing with no end

Question 29

what is log growth of a population?

Answer 29

the growth of a population towards a population cap

Question 30

what are some examples of biotic factors?

Answer 30

predation, disease, species interactions.

Question 31

what are some abiotic factors?

Answer 31

natural disasters, PH

Question 32

what are densitiy indipendant foctors?

Answer 32

any factors that do not change with density

Question 33

what are density dependant factors?

Answer 33

factors that change with the density of organsims

Question 34

what is a random geographic pattern?

Answer 34

there is no pattern to the spread of the structure/organism

Question 35

what is a clumped geographic pattern?

Answer 35

a geographic pattern where the organsims or structures are clumped into clusters

Question 36

what are uniform geographic patterns?

Answer 36

patterns of the spread of organsims or structures that spread out as far as possible from one another

Question 37

what is a Type 1 survivorship curve?

Answer 37

not survivable in the start and get better with age

Question 38

what is a type 2 survivorship curve?

Answer 38

eh, live about the same at each age

Question 39

what is a type 3 survivorship curve?

Answer 39

live now, you get worse as you age

Question 40

what is an R strategist?

Answer 40

an organsim that utlizises a high reproductive rate to reproduce wih little to no nurturing or caring for young

Question 41

what is a K strategist?

Answer 41

an organsim that utilizes more energy nurtering their young.

Question 42

what is a metapopulation?

Answer 42

population in patches connected by migration paths

Question 43

what is a niche?

Answer 43

a unique diet or location of an animal in it's environment

Question 44

what is a realized niche?

Answer 44

a niche accounting for the interaction of others in the niche

Question 45

what is a fundimental niche?

Answer 45

a niche that does not account for the interaction of other organisms within it

Question 46

what are the three types of +/- specific interactions?

Answer 46

predation, herbivory, parasitism

Question 47

what is a -/- specific interaction called?

Answer 47

competition

Question 48

what is a +/+ specific interaction called?

Answer 48

mutualism

Question 49

what is a / specific interaction called?

Answer 49

commensalism

Question 50

what is competative exclusion?

Answer 50

the exlcusion of one species in the local environment or the exclusion of a competitor

Question 51

what is resource partitioning?

Answer 51

the re-distribution of resources due to a shared niche

Question 52

what is succession?

Answer 52

the species replacement over time in an area, this can be either primary or secondary sucession

Question 53

what is primary succession?

Answer 53

succession is the replacement of species in an area after an event that wipes out all biotic life

Question 54

what is secondary succession?

Answer 54

replacement of species in an area when an event wipes out a lare portion of life in the area

Question 55

what is the anthropocene extinction?

Answer 55

the extinction being caused by us

Question 56

what do humans do to harm the environment?

Answer 56

burn fossil fuels, deforest our forests, create large amounts of trash, eat unsustainable amounts of the wrong foods and much much more