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Spring Break Assignment

Due Tuesday , April 1st:
 
Will Start ch 17 ( at least read first half!!)
Take-home tests for Protist  (given in class), Chapter 35 and 37( below)

Name____________________                                  date _______________________

 

Chapter 35

 

A. multiple Choices

 

_____ 1. Learning to ignore unimportant stimuli is called:

a.      adapting

b.      spacing

c.       conditioning

d.      imprinting

e.      habituation

 

_____2. In the territorial behavior of the stickleback fish, the red belly of one male elicits the aggressive behavior of another male.  This aggressive behavior is an example of

a.      pheromones in action

b.      sign stimulus

c.       fixed action pattern

d.      search image

e.      imprint stimulus

 

_____3. The type of learning that causes specially trained dogs to salivate when they hear bell is called

a.      insight

b.      imprinting

c.       habituation

d.      classical conditioning

e.      trial-and-error learning

 

_____4. The orb spider builds her web in exactly the same way every time.  This is an example of

a.      abnormal behavior

b.      learned behavior

c.       fixed action pattern

d.      random behavior

e.      classical conditioning

 

Use the following terms to answer questions 5-9. Match the term that best fits each of the following descriptions of behavior.

 

a.      habituation

b.      imprinting

c.       classical conditioning

d.      operant conditioning

 

_____5. A dog learns that it will get a treat when it barks.

 

_____6. Tits (birds) learned to peck through the paper tops of milk bottles left on doorsteps and drink the cream from the top

 

_____7. Male insects attempt to mate with orchids but eventually stop responding to them.

 

_____8. A returning salmon goes back to its own home stream to spawn.

 

_____9. Sparrows are receptive to learning songs only during a sensitive period.

 

 

 

 

 

_____10.When a female hanging fly follows her instinct to mate with a male hanging fly that provides the largest object, the two animals exhibit __________.

a.      Migration

b.      fight-or-flight response

c.       courtship behavior

d.      aggressive behavior

 

 

____11. A person is watching a baseball game while sitting behind a fence near home plate. A ball flies off the bat toward the person, who reacts by quickly ducking. The person's behavior is an example of __________.

a.      Migration

b.      Hibernation

c.       A Territory

d.      A reflex

____12. A dog initially refuses to walk across a wooden bridge. The dog's owner teaches the dog to walk across the bridge after practicing this behavior multiple times without giving the dog a treat or a punishment. What type of learning is this an example of?

a.      imprinting

b.      classical conditioning

c.       habituation

d.      trial-and-error

 

_____13 When a nipple is placed in a newborn baby’s mouth, the infant will immediately begin to suckle. This is an example of

a.        habituation

b.        imprinted behavior

c.         classical conditioning

d.        innate behavior

e.        imitation

 

_____14. When you study with the stereo on in the background, you are demonstrating

a.      habituation

b.      imprinting

c.       association

d.      conditioning

e.      imitation

 

_____ 15.  A male turkey that imprinted onto a human at hatching is transferred as a subadult to a flock of “normal” turkeys. When this turkey reaches sexual maturity, he will probably try to court

a.      Male, female, or immature turkeys indiscriminately.

b.      Immature male turkeys

c.       Mature female turkeys

d.      Humans

e.      Nothing.

 

______16.  A big difference between imitation and imprinting is that

a.      Imprinting does not involve a reward.

b.      Imprinting does not involve learning.

c.       Imitation does not involve learning

d.      Imitation does not involve a reward.

e.      Imitation is not limited to a sensitive period.

 

 

 

______17. Which of the following terms broadly describes any kind of interaction between two or more animals?

a.      competition

b.      dominance hierarchy

c.       foraging behavior

d.      genetic programming

e.      social behavior

 

______18. Agonistic behavior

a.      usually causes serious injury to one or both of the combatants

b.      increases the number of individuals who mate

c.       is used to establish dominance hierarchies

d.      is the result of habituation

e.      is rare among vertebrates

 

______19. Territories are typically used for

a.      feeding

b.      mating

c.       rearing young

d.      all of the choices are correct

e.      none of the choices are correct

 

______20. During the spring, male prairie chickens gather in open grassy areas and shuffle in a dance with their wings drooped, head erect and tail feathers spread. The function of this dance is to

a.      Frighten off smaller birds from the territory.

b.      Select the showiest females to mate with.

c.       Attract the attention of females.

d.      Imprint the younger male birds.

e.      Teach courting behavior to younger male birds.

 

_____ 21. An adult human jumps into a raging river to try to save a child who is drowning. This is an example of

a.      ingrained behavior

b.      altruistic behavior

c.       imprinted behavior

d.      survival of the fittest

e.      dominant behavior

 

_____ 22.  The function of the waggle dance in bees is to

a.      indicate only the distance to food

b.      indicate only the direction to food

c.       indicate both the direction and the distance to a food source

d.      attract mates

e.      attract mates and indicate the direction and distance to food

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B. Discussion Questions. Briefly Answer the following questions:

 

1.            Compare and contrast proximate and ultimate causes of behavior.  Give an example of each

2.            Describe examples of types of communication between organisms

3.            Describe one hypothesis  that explains how habituation benefits animals.

4.            What are courtship rituals? Discuss how these rituals benefit animals.

 

 

Name_____________________________      Date_____________________________ 

AP Biology Ch 37                                                Mrs. Muņiz

 

Multiple Choice

 

_____1. The feeding relationships among the species of a community is the community’s

a.       niche

b.      diversity

c.       density

d.      richness

e.      trophic structure

 

_____2. which of the following is not an example of predation?

a.       relationship between Heliconius caterpillars,, which feed on passionflower vines, and the passionflower vines, which combat the caterpillar by various means

b.      a hawk capturing a prairie king snake

c.       a tick feeding on the ear of a rabbit

d.       a deer grazing upon grasses

e.      all of the choices above are examples of predation

 

_____3. A series of reciprocal adaptations in two species defines

a.       interspecific competition

b.      niche compartmentalization

c.       resource partitioning

d.      coevolution

e.      competitive exclusion

 

_____4. When a New England farm is abandoned, its formerly plowed fields first become weedy meadows, then shrubby areas, and finally forest.  This sequence of plant communities is an example of

a.       evolution

b.      a phylogenetic trend

c.       a trophic chain

d.      succession

e.      genetic drift

 

Use the following terms to answer questions 30-35.  Choose the term that best describes the relationships described below.

a.       parasitism

b.      commensalisms

c.       mutualism

d.      competition

e.      ammensalism

 

_____5. human living in a cabin and the white footed mice that sometimes enter and eat food scraps fallen behind the kitchen counter

 

_____6.  child and bacteria that cause tooth decay in his ( her ) mouth.

 

 

_____7.  A black bear in the woods and an accountant living two miles away.

 

 

_____8.  cow and cellulose-digesting bacteria in the rumen of its alimentary canal.

 

 

_____9. mycorrhizae.

 

_____10. two different species of barnacles on a rock.

 

 

Use the following terms to answer questions 11- 13.  Choose the term that best describes the trophic level described below

a.       primary producer

b.      primary consumer

c.       secondary consumer

d.      tertiary consumer

e.      quaternary consumer

 

_____11. In a hypothetical food chain consisting of grass, grasshoppers, sparrows, and hawks, the grasshopper is _______. 

 

 

_____12. In the hypothetical food chain above, the grass is ________

 

_____13. In a hypothetical food chain consisting of phytoplankton -> zooplankton -> fish -> fishermen -> sharks.    The fisherman is ______.

 

_____14. In an average ecosystem, about how much energy is present in the organisms at a given trophic level compared to the organisms at the next higher trophic level?

a.       a tenth as much

b.      half as much

c.       twice as much

d.      ten times as much

e.      it is impossible to say without knowing which trophic levels are involved

 

_____15. Which of the following is NOT true of the nitrogen cycle?

a.       it requires different types of bacteria

b.      nitrogen gas is converted to nitrates in plant leaves

c.       nitrogen is cycled through living organisms

d.      when plants and animals die, their nitrogen is recycled

e.      nitrogen is a component of all proteins

 

______16. Which of the following terms broadly describes any kind of interaction between two or more animals?

a.       competition

b.      dominance hierarchy

c.       foraging behavior

d.      genetic programming

e.      social behavior

 

______17. Agonistic behavior

a.       usually causes serious injury to one or both of the combatants

b.      increases the number of individuals who mate

c.       is used to establish dominance hierarchies

d.      is the result of habituation

e.      is rare among vertebrates

 

______18. Territories are typically used for

a.       feeding

b.      mating

c.       rearing young

d.      all of the choices are correct

e.      none of the choices are correct

 

 

 

 

_____ 19.  Denitrifying bacteria convert ____________ to ______________.

a.       ammonium…nitrogen gas

b.      nitrates…nitrogen gas

c.       nitrogen gas…nitrates

d.      nitrogen gas…ammonium

e.      nitrogen gas…nitrites

 

_____ 20.  Proteins are converted into ammonia by

a.       Decomposers.

b.      Tertiary consumers.

c.        Secondary consumers.

d.      Producers.

e.      Primary consumers.

 

 

 

Essay: 

 

1. Describe the biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen. Trace these elements from the point of their release from a decaying animal to their incorporation into a living animal.  (Include Drawing.  DO NOT PLAGI

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