Adaptations
Animal Behavior
Patterns of Behavior
Learning
Miscellaneous
100
A trait that enables an organism to survive & reproduce in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
100
An inborn behavior or response that an animal performs correctly the first time.
What is an instinct?
100
A threatening behavior that one animal uses to gain control over another.
What is aggression?
100
All the actions an animal performs.
What is behavior?
100
The regular periodic journey of an animal from one place to another, and the back again.
What is migration?
200
The type of learning that occurs when a dog hears a bell ring & has learned to associate it with being fed.
What is conditioning?
200
The process that leads to changes in behavior.
What is learning?
200
An area that is occupied and defended by an animal or group of animals.
What is a territory?
200
A signal that causes an organism to react.
What is a stimulus?
200
A state of greatly reduced body activity that occurs during winter.
What is hibernation?
300
The type of learning that occurs when a monkey stacks boxes in a room to reach a bunch of bananas hanging from the ceiling.
What is insight learning?
300
Type of learning that connects some kind of stimulus to a good or bad event, and is often used in training animals.
What is conditioning?
300
A behavior in which males & females of the same species prepare for mating.
What is courtship behavior?
300
An organism's reaction to a stimulus.
What is a response?
300
The capacity of a computer to perform complex tasks, such as learning from experience & solving problems.
What is artificial intelligence?
400
Name an adaptation that helps a polar bear survive in the Arctic.
What is camouflage? (also: black skin with clear guard hairs to funnel the sunlight to body, fur on the paws, thick dense layer of fat, etc.)
400
Type of learning that occurs when an animal, through repeated practice, learns to perform a behavior more & more skillfully.
What is trial-and-error learning?
400
A group of closely related organisms acting together for the benefit of the whole group.
What is a society?
400
The type of learning that occurs when someone learns to ride a bicycle.
What is trial-and-error learning?
400
Process where newly hatched birds & new-born mammals learn to recognize & follow the first moving object they see, usually their mother.
What is imprinting?
500
Name a reproductive adaptation in flowers.
What is colorful petals? (also: scent, nectar, type of seed dispersal, etc.)
500
Type of learning that occurs when you solve a problem or learn how to do something new by applying what you already know.
What is insight learning?
500
Behavior cycles that occur in organisms over the course of approximately one day.
What is circadian rhythm?
500
The two main functions of behavior.
What are characteristics that help an organism survive & reproduce?
500
Three things animals use to communicate with each other.
What are: sounds, chemicals, & body positions & movements?
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