Unit 2 Key Area 5

Question 1

Use of bands or tags to track the route and distance covered by a migratory animal

Answer 1

Individual marking

Question 2

Behaviour which is inherited and inflexible

Answer 2

Innate

Question 3

behaviour which is gained by experience and its flexible

Answer 3

Learned

Question 4

Specialised piece of equipment attached to migratory animal which emits signals indicating the animals route

Answer 4

Transmitter

Question 5

Regular variation in environmental conditions often beyond the tolerable limits of an organism’s metabolism

Answer 5

Cyclic fluctuations

Question 6

Physiological state in which an animals metabolic rate becomes reduced for part of each 24 hour cycle

Answer 6

Daily torpor

Question 7

Period of an organisms life cycle during which growth and development temporarily come to a halt

Answer 7

Dormancy

Question 8

Type of dormancy which takes place before the arrival of the adverse conditions

Answer 8

Predictive

Question 9

Type of dormancy with takes place after the arrival of adverse conditions

Answer 9

Consequential

Question 10

Type of predictive dormancy with enables some animals to survive adverse winter conditions

Answer 10

Hibernation

Question 11

Type of dormancy which enables some animals to survive periods of excessive heat and drought

Answer 11

Aestivation

Question 12

Regular long distance movement by the members of a species from one place to another where each place offers conditions more favourable that the other for part of the year

Answer 12

Migration