AP Bio 8.1 Review & 8.2 Preview

The name of Unit 8 is ...

• Evolution

• Environment

• Ecology

• Ethology

Topic 1 is called "Responses to the Environment". Responses or behaviors can be ...

• Innate or learned

• Just learned

• Just innate

• Mostly innate, sometimes learned

an animal’s response to a stimulus (internal or external)

• Innate

• Ecology

• Behavior

• Fixed Action Pattern

When trying to understand an organisms behavior, we study both the ______ and ______ cause

• Innate & learned

• Proximate & ultimate

• Spatial & associative

• Fixed action pattern

"What was the stimulus to cause the behavior" refers to the

• Proximate Cause

• Ultimate Cause

• Innate Behavior

• Learned Behavior

why a behavior occurs (in context of natural selection)

• Proximate Cause

• Ultimate Cause

• Innate Behavior

• Learned Behavior

Hereditary, born behaviors, do not need to learn them

• Proximate Cause

• Ultimate Cause

• Innate Behavior

• Learned Behavior

Experiences DO affect these behaviors

• Proximate Cause

• Ultimate Cause

• Innate Behavior

• Learned Behavior

When I was growing up my dog would always bark when my mom was on the phone. To get my my dog to stop barking, my mom would give him food. What is the proximate cause of my dog barking?

• My mom talking on the phone

• The food received

• Seeing my mom

When I was growing up my dog would always bark when my mom was on the phone. To get my my dog to stop barking, my mom would give him food. What could an ultimate cause of this behavior be?

• My mom talking on the phone

• The food received

• Receiving food which would influence survival and reproduction