Ecological Homeostasis

What is a seasonal movement of an animal to another location to find food called? 

• camouflage
• migration
• grouping
• mimicry

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What do we call a behavior that is gained by observing and mimicking another individual?

• inherited or innate behaviors

• learned behaviors

• instincts

• migration

What is it called when a newborn animal recognizes and follows the first moving object it sees? 

• shivering
• inherited or innate behaviors
• instincts
•  imprinting

What do we call trial and error learning when a behavior, good or bad, is repeated over and over?

• imprinting

• learned behaviors

• instincts

• classical conditioning

Inherited behaviors, such as birds building a special kind of nest; an automatic action that is natural to ALL of a species.

• classic conditioning

• imprinting

• learned behaviors

• instincts

This occurs when body activity is greatly reduced to a dormant state in order to conserve energy during the summer:

• sleep

• hibernation

• mimicry

• estivation

Behaviors or abilities that are passed on from parents to offspring without teaching or training are called:

• innate behaviors

• learned behaviors

• conditioned behaviors

• imprinted behaviors

What do we call it when an animals coloring allows it to blend in with its surroundings?

• blending
• camouflage
• migration
• hibernation

A kind of behavior common to some newly hatched birds or newly born animals that causes them to adopt the first person, animal or object they see as their parent.

• Fingerprinting
• Abandonement
• Imprinting
• Rejection

The behaviors or appearances used to attract a mate in order to produce offspring and future generations of the species.

• Courtship

• Dating

• estivation

• Hibernation