4.4.2 PRACTICE Animal Behaviors for Reproduction

Animal Behaviors for Reproduction

-Practice

Behaviors

• A behavior is the way an animal acts or responds to stimuli in the environment. 

• A behavior can be inherited or learned.

• An inherited behavior is also known as an instinct or innate behavior.

• A learned behavior is also known as an acquired behavior.

Multiple Choice

What type of behavior is inherited rather than learned?

• society grouping

• Innate behavior

• tool use

Multiple Select

Pick BOTH correct answers:

What are the TWO main goals of most animal behaviors?

• SURVIVAL

• MIGRATION

• REPRODUCTION

• COMMUNICATION

Multiple Choice

When an animal looks for food or hides from a predator, it is doing something that helps it:

• reproduce

• survive

• migrate

• communicate

Multiple Choice

When an animal searches for mates and builds a nest for their young, they are behaving in ways that help them:

• reproduce

• survive

• migrate

• dominate

Mating Behaviors - When animals mate:

• A male animal fertilizes a female animal’s egg cells with his sperm cells

• The fertilized egg will eventually develop into a new organism. 

Multiple Choice

Which would best describe the way an organism reacts to other organisms or to its environment?

• Instinct

• Behavior

• Conditioning

• Imprinting

Multiple Choice

The genetic material from two different cells - sperm and eggs- combine, producing an offspring

• Asexual Reproduction

• Gestation

• Sexual reproduction

• Metamorphosis

Multiple Choice

When a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell, the new cell that is formed is called a?

• Ovary

• Testes

• grosoph

• Zygote

COMMUNICATION

• Animals communicate in many ways, using sounds, scents, and body movements. Often, the goal of communication is reproduction

• Sound

  Example: Birds sing for many reasons, but one of the reasons they sing is to attract mates

• Chemicals

  Many animals use chemical scents to send messages. Pheromone - chemical released by one animal that affects the behavior of another animal of the same species

Multiple Choice

What is the chemical that is produced by one animal and influences the behavior of another animal of the same species?

• Instinct

• Aggression

• Pheromone

• Submission

Multiple Choice

Bioluminescence is the ability of certain living things to give off___________?

• light

• sound

• heat

• force

Multiple Choice

An example of visual communication could be through the use of

• howling

• pheromones

• colors on the feathers of birds

• touch

Multiple Choice

When ants follow pheromones left by other ants, this is an example of __________________ communication.

• Visual

• Auditory

• Tactile

• Chemical

COMPETITION

• Animals compete for resources, such as food and water.  They also compete for access to mates, which may involve displays of aggression. 

• Aggression

  Threatening behavior that one animal uses to intimidate or dominate another animal. 

• Maintaining Territories

  Another competitive behavior that is often observed in animals is establishing and maintaining a territory. 

• Territory: an area that is occupied and defended by an animal or group of animals.  An animal that is defending its territory will drive other animals away that may compete with it for mates. 

Multiple Choice

Animals might set up and defend an area for feeding, mating, and raising young in this area?

• Society

• Territory

• Area

• Group

Multiple Choice

A forceful behavior used to dominate or control another animal is called____________?

• Submission

• Anger

• Instinct

• Aggression