Thursday, May 29, 2014

20 Question Mini-Quiz!

Practice AP Bio Animal Behavior Quiz


1. It is difficult for humans to study the behavior of other animals for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
a. human information processing is different from other animals.
b. other animals' behavior seems to resemble human behavior.
c. we perceive our world with sensory organs more or less unlike those of other animals.
d. humans can manipulate tools and other animals cannot.
e. humans have more learned behavior than other animals.

2. Which of the following groups of scientists are closely associated with ethology?
a. Watson, Crick, and Franklin
b. McClintock, Goodall, and Lyon
c. Fossey, Hershey, and Chase
d. von Frisch, Lorenz, and Tinbergen
e. Hardy, Weinberg, and Castle

3. Animals tend to maximize their energy-intake to expenditure ratio. What is this behavior called?
a. agonistic behavior
b. optimal foraging
c. dominance hierarchies
d. animal cognition
e. territoriality


Use the terms shown below to answer the following question(s).
Match the term that best fits each of the following descriptions of behavior. Each term may be used once, more than once, or not at all.


1. FAP releaser
2. habituation
3. imprinting
4. classical conditioning
5. operant conditioning

4. Male insects attempt to mate with orchids but eventually stop responding to them.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5

5. A returning salmon goes back to its own home stream to spawn.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5

6. The proximate causes of behavior are interactions with the environment whereas the ultimate cause of behavior is
a. hormones.
b. evolution.
c. sexuality.
d. pheromones.
e. the nervous system.

7. In the territorial behavior of the stickleback fish, the red belly of one male illicits attack from another male by functioning as
a. a pheromone.
b. a releaser.
c. a zeitgeber.
d. a search image.
e. an imprint stimulus.

8. All of the following statements about learning and behavior are correct EXCEPT
a. Insight learning involves the ability to reason.
b. Associative learning involves linking one stimulus with another.
c. Operant conditioning is a type of innate behavior that involves drive.
d. Behavior can be modified by learning but some apparent learning is mostly due to maturation.
e. Imprinting is a learned behavior with an innate component acquired during a critical period.

9. The congregation of lice in a moist location due to greater activity in dry areas is an example of
a. taxis.
b. tropism.
c. kinesis.
d. insight.
e. net reflex.

10. Which of the following statements about behavioral rhythms is correct?
a. Daily behaviors are regulated by an endogenous clock set by external signs.
b. Exogenous cues have little influence on biological clocks.
c. The proposed mechanism of the biological clock involves the resonance of magnetite.
d. Circannual behaviors are controlled by endogenous clocks.
e. Hibernation is controlled by an internal clock.

11. A substance produced by one animal, which elicits a specific response by another member of the same species is called
a. a marker.
b. an inducer.
c. a pheromone.
d. an imprinter.
e. an agonistic chemical.

12. The presence of altruistic behavior in animals is most likely due to kin selection, a theory that maintains that
a. aggression between sexes promotes the survival of the fittest individuals.
b. genes enhance survival of copies of themselves by directing organisms to care for others who share those genes.
c. companionship is advantageous to animals because in the future they can help each other.
d. critical thinking abilities are normal traits for animals and they have arisen, like other traits, through natural selection.
e. natural selection has generally favored the evolution of exaggerated aggressive and submissive behaviors to resolve conflict without grave harm to participants.
Refer to the list of scientists given below to answer the following question(s).
1. Karl von Frisch
2. Niko Tinbergen
3. Konrad Lorenz
4. B.F. Skinner
5. Ivan Pavlov

13. Studied communication in bees.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5

14. Studied imprinting of greylag geese.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
Refer to the following list of scientists to answer the following question(s).
1. E.O. Wilson
2. Jane Goodall
3. J.B.S. Haldane
4. Donald Griffin
5. Jean-Henri Fabre

15. Studied mechanistic fixed action patterns in digger wasps.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5



16. A key stimulus results in a fixed action pattern through a(n):

17. A female Herring gull has a red spot on her beak. When they see this spot, her chicks will peck at it and the female bird will regurgitate food for the chicks. In this situation, the spot on the female's beak acts as the:
18. A male stickleback fish will normally become aggressive upon seeing the red belly of another male stickleback. These males will become extremely aggressive when they see a large red object. What kind of stimulus is the large red object?
19. An environmental stimulus that can be used to entrain an endogenous clock is called a:
20. A sea slug normally responds to being poked by curling up. After being poked repeatedly the slug no longer curls up. This is an example of:




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