Ecology
A _____ eats plants and a _____ eats meat.
What is Herbivore?
What is Carnivore?
A chemical released by one animal that affects the behavior of another animal of the same species
What is Pheromone?
Use of defensive behavior such as vocalization, visual displays, physical marks, fighting or scent to protect an area
What is territoriality?
Barnacles on a whale, where the whale is neither harmed nor helped, but the barnacles get a free ride is this type of symbiosis
What is Commensalism?
Type of learning when a duck follows it's mother immediately after birth
What is Imprinting?
Organisms that can make their own food are called _______; organisms that must obtain energy from molecules made by other organisms are called _____________.
What are Producers or Autotrophs?
What are Consumers or Heterotrophs?
The waggle dance in bees is this type of animal communication.
What is Tactile?
Animals that live together to aid each other in avoiding predators, assisting in rearing offspring and finding food.
What is Sociobiology?
In this type of symbiosis, one organism benefits and the host organism is harmed.
What is Parasitism?
Scientist that taught pigeons to play ping pong by giving treats using operant conditioning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
All of the different populations living and interacting in with each other in a habitat
What is Community?
A male cat "puffs" up his tail and neck when he sees a strange male is this type of communication
What is Visual?
Innate behavior when males and females of the same species find each other to mate? Give 2 examples.
What is courtship?
-The blue-footed boobie shows the female bird his feet and does a dance
-A male peacock spreads his tail feathers in presence of a female
A ________ feeds on and kills another organism, which is its ________.
What is Predator?
What is Prey?
A fixed action pattern is triggered by an external cue called a _____ _______.
What is Sign Stimulus?
The nonliving components of the environment are _____ and the living components are _____.
What is abiotic?
What is biotic?
The 4 modes of animal communication.
What is Chemical, Auditory, Visual, Tactile?
Ranking of animals that allows females to mate with dominant, fertile males.
What is Dominance Hierarchy?
The relationship between a bee and a flower, where the bee gets pollen and the flower gets pollinated
What is Mutualism?
Learned behavior that results from the animal repeatedly being given stimulus and stops responding to it
What is Habituation?
An animal defense mechansm in which an organism has colorations to warn off a predator or blend into its surroundings
What is Camouflage?
What is Auditory?
Behavior that decreases the reproductive success of one individual to benefit another and the group
What is altruism?
Competition between members of DIFFERENT species
What is Interspecific Competition?
Genetically programmed behavior where an animal performs it without experience
What is Innate or Instinctive Behavior?