Chapter 6 Quiz

It's all Food!

1

Refers to how much food is available in a given area.

(Food) Abundance

2

Refers to how food is spread out in an area.

(Food) Distribution

3

This is an example of clumped distribution in food.

Fruits in fruit trees.

4

Modified True or False:

A primate's Basal Metabolic Rate decreases with its body size.

False, it increases with its body size.

5

This is the rate at which energy is used to maintain the body while at rest.

Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

Let's Communicate

1

A type of communication that uses loud calls to defend one's territory.

Vocal Communication

2

The type of communication involving grooming and physical contact.

Tactile communication

3

Name a function of grooming aside from hygiene.

To maintain social bond and relationships.

4

A type of communication that utilizes scent marking and urine washing.

Olfactory Communication

5

This term means raised fur, and it can make an individual appear larger.

Piloerection

Primate Relationships

1

A form of competition where an animal consumes food before another animal can get to it. 

Indirect Competition

2

A mating relationship involving one male and one female.

Monogamy

3

This term means using the environment differently to reduce competition.

Niche Partitioning

4

A mating relationship involves one female mating with multiple males.

Polyandry

5

This principle states that two species that compete for the same resources cannot coexist.

The Competitive Exclusion Principle

Systems in Action

1

The gender that most commonly disperses from their birth group.

Male primates

2

True or False?

In all cases of primate life, caring for the young is solely the female primate's responsibility. Males will never carry and groom their infants.

False, it is a shared responsibility.

3

A social system wherein species can split into smaller groups and later come together again.

(F__ - F___ social systems)

Fission-fusion social systems

4

A type of community where the geographic ranges of populations don’t overlap.

Allopatric Community

5

This term refers to individuals from different species associating with one another, with at least one species changing its behavior to maintain the association.

Polyspecific associations

General Knowledge

1

Branch of science that studies primate behavior.

Primatology

2

Jane Goodall studied this species of primates in Gombe, Tanzania.

Chimpanzees

3

She studied mountain gorillas in Karisoke, Rwanda.

Dian Fossey

4

Birutė Galdikas studied this species of primate in Borneo

Orangutans

5

Name the three women of Primatology.

Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birutė Galdikas