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Animal Behaviors Quiz
1. True or False: Hunting is a type of animal behavior.
2. True or False: Many animal behaviors are to provide food.
3. What is animal behavior?
4. What is meant by fitness? How are animal behaviors related to fitness?
5. Why do animals behave the way they do?
6. How is fitness related to genes?
a) Animals with lower fitness have a better chance of passing their genes on to
the next generation.
b) Animals with higher fitness have a better chance of passing their genes on to
the next generation.
c) Animals with higher fitness make better and more useful genes.
d) Animals with higher fitness use their genes more efficiently.
7. Which is a type of animal behavior?
a) Nest building by wasps.
b) Lizards raising body temperature by lying in the sun.
c) A mother nursing her babies.
d) All of the above are animal behaviors.
8. Which animal behavior is probably most important to rabbits?
a) The ability to build nests.
b) The ability to maintain homeostasis by absorbing sunlight.
c) The ability to avoid predators.
d) All of the above are equally important.
9. Which of the following result from animal behaviors?
a) maintain homeostasis
b) protect the young
c) get food
d) all of the above
10. If genes control behaviors that increase fitness, how do the behaviors
become more common in the species?
a) Through more frequent usage of the behavior.
b) By only using advantageous behaviors.
c) Through natural selection of the gene.
d) all of the above