Animal Behavior

What is behavior?

• it is the way an organism reacts to other organisms or to its environment

• a complex pattern of innate behaviors.

• it is a response in which an animal’s body temperature, activity, heart rate, and breathing rate decrease during periods of cold weather.

• occurs when an animal forms an attachment to an organism or place within a specific time period after birth or hatching.

Behaviors that are passed on from parents to offspring without teaching or training are called what?

• inherited or innate behaviors

• learned behaviors

• acquired traits

• imprinted behaviors

________________ is the way an animal acts.

• Behavior

• Instincts

• Trait

• Acquired

A behavior animals are born knowing how to do is an __________.

• example

• animal

• option

• instinct

When a bird uses mud and grass to build a nest, it's demonstrating...

• environmental influences
• learned behavior
• recessive traits
• instinct

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

A behavior that is developed by observing others or by being taught is a 

• learned behavior 
• inherited trait
• adaptation 
• function

Which is an example of a learned behavior?

• blinking
• riding a bike
• swallowing
• crying

Which of these is not an instinctive behavior?

• a bird building a nest

• a turtle burying its eggs

• a bear hibernating in winter

• a horse pulling a plow

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

The following are all examples of instincts except:

• Blinking
• Breathing
• Talking
• Swallowing

If animals communicate by releasing scents they are communicating __?

• visually

• verbally

• chemically

• laterally