Animal Behaviors
This type of behavior is present at birth and doesn’t need to be taught.
What is instinct or innate behavior?
Birds flying south for the winter is an example of this adaptation
What is Migration?
In this relationship, both species benefit
What is mutualism?
An animal that hunts and kills another
What is a predator
This is the definition of organic matter
What is matter that comes from something living or once living?
A dog learning to roll over is an example of this.
What is a learned behavior?
This is when animals go into a deep sleep during cold months.
What is hibernation?
One species benefits and the other is not affected.
What is commensalism?
The term for the organism a parasite must live off of
What is a host?
This type of material would exist even if there was no life on earth
What is inorganic matter?
The thing in the environment that causes a reaction.
What is a stimulus?
Animals that are active at night are described as this
What is nocturnal?
This kind of mutualism is where both species cannot live without each other.
What is Obligate Mutualism?
This is what decomposers do.
What is break down organic matter into inorganic matter?
Blood, leaves, and Hair are examples of this
What is organic matter?
The reaction an organism has to a change in its environment.
What is a response?
These are the two reasons an animal would want to camouflage
What is to hide from predators and sneak up on prey?
This type of relationship is when two species live in the same habitat but do not affect eachother
What is neutralism?
This is what producers do
What is make their own food by turning inorganic matter into organic matter like sugars?
This is why rocks are considered inorganic
What is because they would exists without the presence of life.
A raccoon trying multiple ways to open a trash can until successful is an example what what kind of learned behavior?
What is the difference in purpose between nesting and burrowing
what is Nesting is for laying eggs or protecting young, burrowing is for shelter?
This is the difference between parasitism and predation?
What is parasites slowly feed off their host and predators kill their prey quickly?
What is to deter predators from eating them?
This is how inorganic matter become organic and then inorganic again.