9.4 Fitness and Adaptations

Learning how to ride a bike is an example of this type of behavior.

• Trial and Error
• Imprinting
• Conditioning
• Reflex

Dr. Watson scared a human infant to be afraid of a cute stuffed animal.

• Classical Conditioning

• Reflex

• Trial and Error

• Insight

Traveling to a different region during different times of the year

• Migration
• Communication
• Hibernation
• Competition

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A period of inactivity that some animals experience in winter that allows them to survive on stored body fat.

• pheromone
• hibernation
• submission
• estivation

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An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.

• reflex
• habituation
• territoriality
• classical conditioning

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A type of learning in which an organism associates stimuli to a specific behavior.

• classical conditioning
• pheromone
• migration
• territoriality

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An example of stuctural/physical adaptation is...

• blood type

• bioluminescence

• camouflage

• migration

What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

an orientation behavior where the animal moves towards or away from a stimulus

• Kinesis
• Taxis
• Stimulus
• Learned behavior

Opossums have a _____________________ to an attack referred to as "playing possum."

• reproductive adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

• structural adaptation

• physical adaptation