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Behavior/Scientific Method Review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

T or F: Behavior refers to a response from a physiological, mental, or hormonal stimuli.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Which of these examples classifies as Imprinting?

a)

Male sticklebacks attack other males that enter their territory, but court females and entice them to enter the nest to lay eggs.

b)

We touch foals after birth that way our smell, voice and touch is in their mind immediately along with their mothers.

c)

Kelp gull chicks are stimulated by a red spot on the mother's beak to peck at the spot, which induces regurgitation.

d)

Mayflies drop their eggs when they encounter a certain pattern of light polarization which indicates they are over water.

3.

T or F: Ultimate Causation describes "how," and Proximate Causation describes "why."

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Define Ethology.

a)

Study of Phenotypical Behavior

b)

Study of Human Behavior

c)

Study of Molecular Behavior

d)

Study of Animal Behavior

5.

Which of these is one of Niko Tinbergen's questions?

a)

What signals elicit the behavior of animals?

b)

How does the behavior help the animal survive?

c)

How does the behavior change throughout an animals life?

d)

What is the behavior's evolutionary history?

e)

All of the above

6.

What is the first step of the scientific method?

a)

Make a Hypothesis

b)

Draw Conclusions

c)

Ask a question

d)

Do background research

7.

Your conclusion should relate to back to your...?

a)

Hypothesis

b)

Analysis

c)

Question

d)

Observation

8.

An experiment is performed on plants to see how different liquids affect plant growth. Each plant in the experiment is given a different liquid; water, apple juice, or milk. Each plant has the same amount of soil, same amount of sunlight, and the same amount of liquid. In this investigation, what is the independent variable?

a)

Types of Plants

b)

Plant Growth

c)

Amount of Sunlight

d)

Different Types of Liquids

9.

How do you draw a conclusion for an experiment?

a)

You compare the data from your experimental results to the prediction they tested.

b)

You guess what the results should be.

c)

You keep making different tests until they show what you want to see.

d)

You look at your hypotheses and choose which one you like best.

10.

What is the difference between a question and a hypothesis?

a)

A question is an assumption and the hypothesis is the answer to the assumption.

b)

A question follows from an interesting observation and the hypothesis is an educated guess or answer to that question.

c)

A question is the summary of data collected and the hypothesis is the interpretation of the data.

d)

A question is what you end up with after the test and the hypothesis is a summary of the conclusions.