Responses to the Environment
True or False: Behaviors are subject to natural selection.
What is true.
This type of movement is non-directional and is defined as a change in the rate of movement frequency.
a. Taxis
b. Kinesis
c. Migration
d. Tropism
What is Kinesis.
True or False: Organic compounds always contain carbon.
What is true.
This is a group of individuals of the same species living in the same area.
a. Community
b. Species
c. Population
d. Biome
What is Population.
This is the study of how evolutionary processes shape inherited behaviors and the ways that animals respond to specific stimuli.
a. Ecology
b. Ethology
c. Demography
d. Biology
What is ethology.
Nitrogen is important for the formation of many molecules. Which option from the list below does NOT represent a molecule that requires nitrogen to form?
a. Amino acids
b. Proteins
c. ATP
d. Nucleic acids
What is ATP.
The transfer of energy between trophic levels is around _____ efficacy.
a. 20%
b. 15%
c. 10%
d. 5%
What is 10%.
True or False: Ethology is the study of the vital statistics of populations and how they change over time.
What is false. What is Demography.
Which of the following would have the most negative effect on a community?
a. Random dispersion patterns
b. Low species diversity
c. Removal of a primary consumer
d. Removal of a keystone species
What is removal of a keystone species.
True or False: An ecosystem requires a continuous input of energy to sustain itself. Energy cannot be recycled in ecosystems.
What is true.
True or False: In the phrase “nature vs. nurture” the “nature” component refers to environmental factors that influence behavior and the “nurture” component refers to genetic factors that influence behavior.
What is false.
This represents the amount of light energy that is converted to chemical energy in an ecosystem.
a. Primary production
b. Secondary production
c. Trophic structures
d. Food webs
What is Primary production.
Which option below does not represent a variable that affects life history?
a. When reproduction begins
b. The number of offspring produced per reproductive episode
c. How often the organism can reproduce
d. Size of offspring
What is size of offspring.
Honey bees exhibit some of the most spectacular and advanced forms of communication of all insects. Pheromones are involved in every aspect of the honey bee colony life: development, defense, orientation, and reproduction. Pheromones allow communication among all honey bee castes: queen–workers, workers–workers, and queen–drones. What type of communication does this represent?
a. Visual
b. Auditory
c. Tactile
d. Chemical
What is Chemical.
True or False: The realized niche is the niche potentially occupied by the species if there were no limiting factors.
What is false. What is The Fundamental Niche.
What is a food obtaining behavior called?
a. Dispersion
b. Forging
c. Taxis
d. Imprinting
What is forging.
True or False: The second law of thermodynamics states energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transferred.
What is false. It's the first law
All organisms living in an area is known as:
a. Habitat
b. Ecosystem
c. Community
d. Neighborhood
What is a ecosystem.
The pattern of spacing among individuals within a population is called:
a. Dispersion
b. Separation
c. Scattering
d. Forging
What is dispersion.
A long-lasting behavioral response to an individual is called:
a. Dispersion
b. Mindset
c. Habitat
d. Imprinting
What is imprinting.
Learning through observations and imitations of observed behaviors is called:
a. Environmental learning
b. Ecology learning
c. Social learning
d. Habitat learning
What is social learning.
The directional movement towards a positive or away from a negative is called:
a. Taxis
b. Dispersion
c. Kinesis
d. Imprinting
What is taxis.
Nonliving physical and chemical properties of the environment is called:
a. Abiotic factors
b. Biotic factors
c. Dispersion
d. Habitat
What is Abiotic factors.
Total amount of energy an animal uses in a unit of time is called:
a. Caloric release
b. Energetic output
c. Energy burn
d. Metabolic rate
What is metabolic rate.
The modification of behavior based on specific experiences is called:
a. Learning
b. Pairing
c. Switching
d. Tachyphylaxis
What is learning.