Animal Social Behavior and Evolution

Animal Social Behavior and Evolution

Assessment

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Science

8th Grade

Hard

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8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is sociality in animals?

When animals live alone and only interact for mating.

When individual animals associate in groups and cooperate towards a shared goal.

When animals only care for their own offspring.

When animals fight off rivals to protect their territory.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is a characteristic of eusocial animals?

Individuals live alone and only interact for mating.

Parents take care of their young for a short period.

Many generations are alive at the same time, with extreme division of labor.

Animals live together in a single place but do not cooperate.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is altruism in the animal kingdom?

When an animal acts aggressively to protect its territory.

When an animal does something that benefits another at its own expense.

When animals only help their direct offspring.

When animals compete for resources within their group.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How can an individual animal increase its evolutionary fitness through inclusive fitness?

By having as many offspring as possible.

By competing with other individuals for resources.

By supporting its non-offspring relatives.

By living a solitary lifestyle to avoid competition.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What term describes the individual "mini animals" that make up a colonial organism like the Man O'War?

Cells

Organs

Zooids

Tissues

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which part of the Man O'War is responsible for secreting digestive proteins?

Pneumatophore

Tentacular Palpon

Gastrozooid

Gonodendron

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a key evolutionary advantage of colonial organisms?

They can easily hide from predators.

They can grow and adapt indefinitely.

They can move faster through water.

They require less food than individual organisms.

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In colonial organisms like bryozoans, where does natural selection primarily apply?

To the individual zooids.

To the entire superorganism (zoon).

To the reproductive cells only.

To the environment they live in.