LS Ch 17 Quiz B

(True or False): Some animals choose a mating partner and rarely separate from that partner for the rest of their lives in a relationship called mating for life.

• True
• False

(True or False): Ants, like most social insects, normally have one queen per colony, and her function is to lay eggs.

• True
• False

(True or False): Birds form animal societies called herds

• True
• False

(True or False): The term competition also refers to the relationship between certain plants.

• True
• False

Some organisms have protective colors or patterns, known as ____________________, that hide them from predators and can help them obtain food.

• warning coloration
• camouflage
• mimicry
• competition

God designed other animals to advertise their presence with to say they are dangerous with ______________________

• warning coloration
• camouflage
• mimicry
• competition

when one organism looks like another.

• warning coloration
• camouflage
• mimicry
• competition

A(n) __________________ forms when a number of animals from the same species live together.

• social insects
• animal societies
• pecking order
• competition

____________________ is the struggle between organisms for some essential factor that is in short supply in the environment.

• social insects
• animal societies
• pecking order
• competition

____________________ is a system of rank that occurs among a group of chickens.

• social insects
• animal societies
• pecking order
• competition