Quiz

Question 1

What are Abiotic Factors?

Answer 1

Temperature
Light
water
Nutrients

Question 2

What are biotic factors?

Answer 2

Living components
animals
plants

Question 3

Tropical rainforest

Answer 3

near the equator
Abiotic
-very wet
-always warm

Biotic
-Many plants and animals, thin soil

Question 4

Savanna

Answer 4

Abiotic
-Seasonal dry and wet season
-always warm

Biotic
-Fire adapted, drought tolerant plants, herbivores and fertile soil(dead animal/plant

Question 5

Desert

Answer 5

Abiotic
None
-Variable daily and seasonally hot, and cold

Biotic
-Sparse vegetation and animals, drought-tolerant, reptiles, insects, rodents and birds

Question 6

Temperate Grassland

Answer 6

Abiotic
-Seasonal dry and seasonal wet
-cold winter/hot summers

+Drought tolerant, fire-adapted, herbivores, deep fertile soil

Question 7

Temperate Deciduos Forest

Answer 7

Abiotic
-Adequate, summer rains, and winter snow
-Moderate warm and summer cool winter

Biotic
-Many mammals, insects, birds,fertile soils

Question 8

Coniferous forest (taiga)

Answer 8

-Abiotic
-dry
-Cool year round

Biotic
-DIverse mammals

Question 9

Arctic tundra/alpine tundra

Answer 9

Abiotic
-cold year-round
-dry
Biotic
migrating animals, permafrost,mosses,grasses

Question 10

What is competitive exclusion?

Answer 10

No two similar species can occupy the same niche at the same time

For example lions and tigers

Question 11

What is behavior?

Answer 11

Everything an animal does and how it does it

Question 12

What is Innate?

Answer 12

It is inherited, automatic consistent

-unchangeable

Question 13

What are learned behaviors?

Answer 13

The animal behavior develops during animal’s lifetime
Variable and flexible -changeable

Question 14

What are proximate causes?

Answer 14

Immediate stimulus and mechanisms
How a behavior occurs

Question 15

What are the ultimate causes?

Answer 15

How does behavior contribute to survival and reproduction

why a behavior occurs

Why question?

Question 16

What are Fixed Action Patterns?

Answer 16

Sequence of behaviors that are unchangeable and when conducted to completion once started

Sign stimulus
for example: a male fish will attack anything that has an red belly

Question 17

What is taxis?

Answer 17

Change in direction
automatic movement towards and away

Question 18

What is kinesis?

Answer 18

Change in rate of movement in response to stimulus

For example: When you pick up a rock the insects scurry around

Question 19

What is a critical period?

Answer 19

The sensitive phase for optimal imprinting
Behaviors that must be learned

Babies need comfort, interaction, commutation between humans

Question 20

What is Associative Learning?

Answer 20

Learning to associate a stimulus with a consequence

For example, You eat something and end up getting sick therefore, you will no longer want to try out that certain food

Question 21

What is operant conditioning?

Answer 21

Trail and error learning

Learning what to eat

Question 22

What is imprinting

Answer 22

The establishment of long-lasting behavioral response ot an particular individual

Question 23

What is Altrustic Behavior?

Answer 23

Reduces individual fitness but increases fitness of recipient

Question 24

List examples of factors that limit geographic distribution.

List factors that are significant to organism distribution and abundance

Answer 24

Temperature, moisture, nutrients, light

Oxygen content, temperature, ph,, nutrients

Question 25

What is loss of response to stimulus?

Answer 25

decrease in response to repeated occurrences of stimulus
-First night living by a train nad then waking up but later on you get use to and sleep through the night

Question 26

what is Classical Conditioning

Answer 26

Connect reflex behavior

For example, the bell rings and the dog initiates that it is time for food

Question 27

Communication Behavior?

Answer 27

For example, Bird song and Insect song
-mating, ritual, innate genetically controlled

Question 28

Agonistic behaviors

Answer 28

threatening and submissive rituals
Territotarlity, competior agression

Question 29

Dominance hierarchy

Answer 29

Social ranking within a group
leader of the park

Question 30

Cooperation

Answer 30

Working together in coordination

Question 31

Kin selection

Answer 31

Increasing survival of close relatives passes these genes on to the next generation

Question 32

Pheromones

Answer 32

Chemical signal that stimulates a response from individuals

Animals that communicate through odors or taste
-example- alarm and sex

An elephant uses sounds to alert them that there is a threat and they flee the area

Question 33

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 33

A community of an organism in an area and the physical factor with which those organisms react