A vertebrate is an animal with a skull and a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
100
Animals that eat other animals are known as predators. The animals eaten by predators are known as prey.
What is a predator?
100
Social behavior is the interaction between animals of the same species.
What is social behavior?
100
Multicullular
All animals are ________________ and have eukaryotic cells. (vertebrates or multicellular)
100
Learned behavior
Reading is an example of:
a) innate behavior
b) behavior controlled by genes
c) learned behavior
d) inherited behavior
200
An invertebrate is an animal without backbones.
What is an invertebrate?
200
Innate behavior is behavior that doesn't depend on learning or experience.
What is innate behavior?
200
1) A signal must travel from one animal to another, and
2) The receiver of the signal must respond in some way.
What two things must happen for communication to occur between two animals?
200
Camouflage
Blending into the background is called ______________.
200
Prey: Predator
The relationship between a worm and a robin can be expressed as:
a) vertebrate : invertebrate
b) prey : predator
c) producer: consumer
d) prokaryote : eukaryote
300
An embryo is an organism in the earliest stage of development.
What is an embryo?
300
Learned behavior is behavior that has been learned from experience or from observing other animals.
What is learned behavior?
300
An area occupied by one animal or a group of animals from which other members of the species are excluded.
What is a territory?
300
Migrate
To travel from one place to another is to _____________.
300
Estivation is a period of reduced activity that some animals experience in the summer.
What is estivation?
400
An organ is a combination of two or more tissues.
What is an organ?
400
Hibernation is a period of inactivity and decreased body temperature that some animals experience in winter.
What is hibernation?
400
Pheromones are chemicals produced by animals for communication.
What are pheromones?
400
Courtship
Special behavior by animals of the same species that leads to mating is called ______________.
400
Hibernation helps animals save energy when there are food and water shortages.
How does hibernation help animals?
500
A consumer is an organism that eats other organisms.
What is a consumer?
500
A biological clock is the internal control of natural cycles. Animals may use clues from their surroundings, such as the length of the day and the temperature, to set their clocks.
What is a biological clock?
500
A "waggle dance" is a dance done by honeybees to tell other bees where they've found nectar.
What is a "waggle dance?"
500
Body
When we wink at a friend or frown at an opponent, we are communicating with ______ language.
500
Warning coloration is the bright coloration on an animal's outer covering which warns other animals that it has a chemical defense.