Animal Behavior (Basics)
An area an animal defends from others.
What is a territory?
A chemical used for communication among animals.
What is a pheromone?
A reason why flowers have bright colors (to attract pollinators).
What is attracting pollinators?
The movement of pollen from one flower to another.
What is pollination?
Interacting behaviors among organisms of the same species.
What is social behavior?
One factor that reduces seed availability.
What is animals eating seeds/weather/fire/erosion/etc.?
A reason an animal stays in a territory (food, shelter, safety, mating, raising young).
What is food/shelter/safety/mating/raising young?
A forceful act used to control another animal.
What is aggression?
The substance that gives flowers their colors.
What are pigments?
An animal that helps pollinate flowers
What is a bee/butterfly/bat?
Members of the same species living together in an organized way.
What is a society?
Three factors that reduce seed availability.
What are (any three correct factors)?
A complex pattern of innate behavior.
What is an instinct?
A behavior performed before mating.
What is courtship?
The time of year when trees stop growing.
What is the dormant period (winter)?
The resource bees gather from flowers for food.
What is nectar (or pollen)?
A chemical used for communication among animals.
What is a pheromone?
A tree that contains 40 different types of fruit due to grafting.
What is the Tree of 40 Fruit?
A seasonal movement of animals.
What is migration?
A slowed metabolism during cold weather.
What is hibernation?
One benefit of forest fires (nutrients returned to soil, seed germination).
What is returning nutrients/releasing seeds/helping them germinate?
The process in which pollen sticks to a bee and is carried to another flower.
What is bee pollination?
A behavior performed before mating.
What is courtship?
The significance of flower color (helps attract pollinators).
What is attracting animals for pollination?
A type of reproduction involving two parents and producing genetic variation.
What is sexual reproduction?
A behavior animals perform to improve reproductive success (nesting, protecting young, courtship)
What is a reproductive behavior?
The reason a seed may NOT sprout even after being produced.
What is lacking the right conditions?
A description or drawing of how a bee pollinates.
What is pollen sticking to the bee and transferring to a new flower?
The way an animal acts toward its environment and other animals.
What is behavior?
Two behaviors plants use to help with reproduction.
What is attracting animals, producing nectar, releasing scents, dispersing seeds, timing growth?