Unit 1 - 3 Key Terms

All the ways animals interact with members of their own kind, other animals, and the environment

• Innate Behavior

• Social Behavior

• Animal Behavior

• Cooperative Behavior

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

An animal behavior that helps another of its kind

• Innate Behavior

• Animal Behavior

• Altruism

• Courtship

The interaction between two or more organisms for a common goal

• Cooperative Behavior

• Innate Behavior

• Social behavior

• Animal Behavior

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A genetically instinctive behavior of an organism that can be expressed without prior knowledge or exposure

• Altruism

• Animal Behavior

• Cooperative Behavior

• Innate Behavior

Interactions between individuals of the same species

• Altruism

• Social Behavior

• Animal Behavior

• Cooperative Behavior

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NGSS.HS-LS2-8

A behavior that is developed from experience

• Learned Behavior

• Animal Behavior

• Courtship

• Group Behavior

Behaviors that occur within or between groups of organisms

• Animal Behavior

• Courtship

• Group Behavior

• Social Behavior

A slowed physiological state of an organism to survive long periods of cold temperature or reduced food supplies

• Animal Behavior

• Hibernation

• Courtship

• Group Behavior

The behavior an animal uses to attract a mate

• Courtship

• Animal Behavior

• Social Behavior

• Hibernation

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4