Animals Week 3 Vocabulary

Blending in with the surroundings is an example of this defense structure.

• Mimicry

• Camouflage

• Direct attack

• Fight or flight

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An animal's ability to imitate another animal as a defense structure

• Mimicry

• Camouflage

• direct attack

• fight or flight

An animal's response to temperature change

• breathing, hunger, fear, blinking

• eating, running, climbing, drinking

• shedding, sweating, panting, shivering

• sleeping, eating, storing food

to prepare for winter some animals will do these things

• courtship, migration, panting, shedding

• breathe, sleep, eat, hide

• pant, sweat, shiver, sweat

• store food, get fat, hibernate, migrate

What is courtship?

• an animal's response to changes in the environment

• a state of greatly reduced body activity

• the movement of an animal from one place to another

• a behavior of an adult of a species that is trying to attract a mate.

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Behaviors passed from parent to offspring and are with the animal from birth

• behavior

• instinct

• learned behavior

• conditioning

An activity or action in response to changes in the environment, which can help an animal survive

• external stimuli

• learned behavior

• behavior

• imprinting

A behavior in which an animal learns that a particular stimulus and its response to that stimulus will lead to a good or bad result

• conditioning

• imprinting

• external stimuli

• learned behavior

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when a newborn animal recognizes and follows the first moving object the see.

• Conditioning

• learned behavior

• imprinting

• instinct

behaviors that are a result of direct observation or experience

• imprinting

• conditioning

• instincts

• learned behaviors

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