Animal Behavior

Behaviors that occurs without having to learn them

• innate behaviors

• Learned behaviors

Behaviors that require experience and memory

• innate behaviors

• learned behaviors

behaviors that animals perform without being taught

• learned behaviors

• instincts

• reflexes

simple, rapid responses to something that happens

• instincts

• learned behaviors

• reflexes

Animals receive information about their environments and respond in ways that help them survive grow and reproduce.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

3 purposes for animal behavior

• survival, growth, and reproduction

• reflexes, instincts, and innate behaviors

• survival, death, mating season

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a behavior that results from sensing information about an environment

• response

• behavior

• respond

• instinct

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

anything an animal does, specifically related to how the animal interacts with its environment and other organisms within its environment

• instinct

• behavior

• reflex

• response

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Animals receive information about their environments, process the information by using internal structures, and respond with either innate or learned behaviors.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Swimming is an example of

• innate behavior

• instincts

• reflexes

• learned behaviors