Animal Adaptations mid

Which of the following can an animal learn by watching its parents?

• A reflex

• An instinct

• a behavior

• a physical adaptation

Reading is an ________

• learned behavior

• inherited behavior

• reflex behavior

• non of the above

Read this sentence: A salmon swims upstream by instinct to lay its eggs. What does the word instinct mean in this sentence?

• no longer in existance

• behavior learned from watching others

• behavior inherited from its parents

• common sense

Why do many plant and animal species become extinct?

• They cannot adapt to their changing environment.

• They choose a bad adaptation

• Giant meteors hit Each, sending up giant clouds of dust that blocks the sun.

• they develop behavioral adaptations but not physical adaptations

Suppose a new predator was introduced to an environment. What would most likely happen first to the prey animals? They would_________

• develop a physical adaptation to defend themselves

• develop a new behavior to defend themselves

• have a sharp increase in population

• become predators

Charles Darwin was a naturalist famous for which law of nature?

• Every living things adapts

• only the strong shall survive

• life will find a way

• survival of the fittest

If a climate gradually warms over five hundred thousand years, what might happen to animals that live there?

• They will develop physical adaptations to adjust to the changed climate.

• They will learn new behaviors to adjust to the changed climate

• they will move to an area with a different climate

• all of the above

Big is related to large in the same way that environment is related to _______

• small

• surrounding

• pollution

• ocean

A horse automatically sneezing when dust gets in its nose is a _____

• physical characteristic

• learned behavior

• reflex

• none of the above

A monkey's tail that can grip branches is a ________.

• behavioral adaptations

• physical adaptation

• reflex

• none of the above