Animal orientation

What are the different methods of Navigation?

Innate behaviours are...

• Behaviours the animal is taught

• Behaviours which are genetically programmed

• Behaviours that an animal learns over time

• Behaviours that are only related to orientation

Mosquitoes are attracted to body heat.

What is this an example of?

• Positive Thermotaxis

• Thermotaxis

• Negative Thermotaxis

• Positive Thigmotaxis

Orthokinesis is when organisms

• Move towards the directional stimulus to locate it quickly

• Move away from a directional stimulus to avoid it

• Increase their speed to locate more suitable environments

• Increase their turning to locate more suitable environments

Klinokinesis occurs when organisms

• Increase their speed to locate more suitable environments

• Move away from a directional stimulus to avoid it

• Increase their turning to locate more suitable environments

• Move towards the directional stimulus to locate it quickly

Negative Gravitaxis is...

• Moving away from chemicals

• Moving against gravity

• Moving away from touch

• Moving with gravity

The ability to return back home on a regular basis from any location is

• Home range detection

• Homing

• Migration

• Territoriality

In response to a light stimuli, slaters generally show

• Negative photokineses

• Negative Phototaxis

• Phototaxis

• Photokineses

The waggle dance uses what method of navigation?

• Sonar

• Solar

• Stellar

• Chemical

What allows organisms to sense direction, altitude or location by detecting a magnetic field

• Magnetoreceptors

• Thermoreceptors

• Mechanoreceptors

• Chemoreceptors