Animal Responses Quiz

Which of the following is an example of a learned behavior?

• Talking
• Height
• Blood type
• Hair color

An involuntary response to a drop in the temperature outside or inside the body of a warm-blooded animal is

• hibernating
• panting
• shedding
• shivering

The days are getting shorter and the temperature is dropping. The squirrel responds to these cues by

• migrating
• hibernating
• shedding fur
• gathering food

Like other animals, humans respond to changes in temperature. All BUT one response is a human response to a change in environmental temperatures. That is

• moving
• shedding
• shivering
• sweating

The orb spider builds her web in exactly the same way every time. This is an example of

• learned behavior.
• abnormal behavior.
• inherited behavior.
• conditioned response.

In which of these behaviors is it critical that members of the same species be able to recognize one another?

• migration
• hibernation
• mimicry
• courtship

How do some animals, such as bears, deal with seasonal changes in the environment that result in cold temperatures and little food

• They hibernate.
• They become extinct.
• They are camouflaged.
• They leave and find another home.

Which behavior MOST distinguishes mammals and birds from other vertebrates?

• care of young after birth.
• aggressive defensive behavior.
• the structure of their appendages .
• use of tools and cooperative behavior.

the process by which the characteristics of a species change over many generations in response to the environment

• Adaptation
• Behavior
• Response
• Stimulus

any organism that can create its own food from inorganic materials

• Heterotrophs
• Autotroph
• Stimulus
• Amphibians