Week 12 Zoology Quiz

_________ in animals is when one animal can make themselves to look or act like another animal in order to disguise themselves.

• Mimicry

• Transformation

• Cloning

• Copying

The red ______ snake, for example, looks very similar to the coral snake. 

• rock

• milk

• water

• oil

Some animals use mimicry to sneak up on prey.

• True

• False

The hawk will sometimes fly with a flock of doves to allow it to sneak up on unsuspecting rodents.

• True

• False

A glass lizard, being _______, looks like a Florida king snake which makes other animals leave him alone.

• headless

• armless

• legless

• eyeless

The viceroy butterfly uses mimicry to look like a monarch butterfly which is delicious to predators.

• True

• False

In crypsis, an animal blends in with its environment.

• Aposematic

• Crypsis

• Environmental

Appearance and behavior are

both unimportant components in crypsis.

• True

• False

Warning coloration is called aposematic coloration.

• True

• False

There are two types of aposematic

mimicry - Batesian and Müllerian.

• True

• False