Behavioral Adaptations

Many birds fly to warmer regions during winter months and return in the summer.  Which term best describes this type of behavior?

• Habituation
• Hibernation
• Migration
• Social

The males of a bird species do a "dance" and "sing a song" each spring. What is the main purpose of these behaviors?

• to scare off young birds
• to imprint young brids
• to clean their feathers
• to attract female birds 

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At night, moths travel toward light. Which type of behavior does this describe?

• habituation
• imprinting
• innate behavior
• learned behavior

This occurs when body activity is greatly reduced in order to conserve food stored n the body:

• sleep
• hibernation
• mimicry
• grouping

What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an animal survive.
• The food that an animal eats.
• How energy moves in a food web.
• How animals evolve throughout time.

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Birds migrate (move to) a warmer place during winter.

• Structural
• Behavioral

Penguins huddle close together to keep warm.

• Structural
• Behavioral

Behavioral adaptations can be...

• instinctive or learned through experience.
• a structural adaptation.
• can not be learned.
• really hard for animals.

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What are the two types of Behavioral Adaptations? 

• Learned and Innate
• Harmful and Beneficial
• Long term and Short term
• Visible and Invisible

Learned behaviors are those that

• are obtained through experience or observation.
• born in an organism.
• harmful to an organism.
• not observable in an organism.