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Clarify question:
What is the key concept addressed by the question?
What type of thinking is required?
Gather Content:
What do you already know about optimal foraging behaviors? What other information is
Choose Answer:
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
Reflection on Process:
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the
process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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47. Your study buddy asks, “would you please explain the difference between home range and
territory?” What is the best response?
48. Male Mormon crickets choose larger females as their mates. Which of the following
statements best interprets the graph?
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What is the key concept addressed by the question?
What type of thinking is required?
Gather Content:
What do you already know about mate choice? What other information is related to the
question?
Choose Answer:
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
Reflection on Process:
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the
process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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49. Pea fowl (peacocks and peahens) show sexual dimorphism — males have long blue-green
tail feathers with eyespots, while females have short brown tail feathers. Which statement best
describes the graphed data about peacocks?
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What is the key concept addressed by the question?
What type of thinking is required?
Gather Content:
What do you already know about sexual selection? What other information is related to the
question?
Choose Answer:
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
Reflection on Process:
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the
process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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50. What is the flash pattern used by female fireflies to attract males of their species an
example of?
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What is the key concept addressed by the question?.
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What do you already know about animal behavior? What other information is related to
the question?
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Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
Reflection on Process:
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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51. The vertical dive of a moth for cover when it hears the ultrasound chirps of an
approaching bat is an example of a(n)
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What is the key concept addressed by the question?
What type of thinking is required?
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What do you already know about animal behavior patterns? What other information is
related to the question?
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Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
Reflection on Process:
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the
process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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52. The neural circuit that allows a male stickleback fish to orient and behave aggressively
towards an inanimate object with a red stripe is an example of a(n)
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What is the key concept addressed by the question?
What type of thinking is required?
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What do you already know about behavior in stickleback fish? What other information is
related to the question?
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Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
Reflection on Process:
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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53. When a parent herring gull arrives at the nest with food, a chick will orient to and peck at
the red spot on the parent’s bill. The parent will then regurgitate the food into the chick’s open
mouth and the chick swallows it. What is this set of behaviors an example of?
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What is the key concept addressed by the question?
What type of thinking is required?
Gather Content:
What do you already know about animal behaviors, specifically feeding behaviors in
herring gulls? What other information is related to the question?
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Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
Reflection on Process:
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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Ranking Questions
54. The development of normal maternal behavior in female mice depends on interactions
between the female and her young and the presence of a gene called fosB. In mice with
functional fosB genes, a sequence of events occurs after babies are born.
Arrange the events in their normal sequence following the birth of baby mice for a wildtype
female.
Check All That Apply Questions
55. Which of the following are examples of associative learning? (Check all that apply.)
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Multiple Choice Questions
56. You place an empty dog-food dish across the room from a puppy that then goes over to
investigate the dish. You pick the dish up and ten minutes later you place it in a different part
of the room, and you keep repeating this pattern. After the fifth time the puppy no longer goes
over to the empty dish. Which of the following terms best describes this form of learning?
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What type of thinking is required?
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What do you already know about types of learning behaviors? What other information is
related to the question?
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Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
Reflection on Process:
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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57. What is the term for learning that occurs only during a brief period early in life and results
in a behavior that is difficult to modify.
58. It is 6:00 PM and the sun is due west of the hive. A honeybee has just returned to its hive
from a patch of flowers that are due north of the hive. Which of the following best describes
the type of waggle dance that this bee should perform? Note: The waggle run is the straight
part of the dance.
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What is the key concept addressed by the question?
What type of thinking is required?
Gather Content:
What do you already know about the waggle dance in bees? What other information is
related to the question?
then what is difference in degree from West to North?
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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Check All That Apply Questions
59. In which of the following examples has communication occurred? (Check all that apply)
_____ A bird gives an alarm call when a hawk approaches, but no other birds are in the area.
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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Multiple Choice Questions
60. Correctly rephrase the following famous quote from J. B. S. Haldane. “I would lay down
my life in order to save two brothers or __________________.”
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What is the key concept addressed by the question?
What type of thinking is required?
Gather Content:
What do you already know about kin selection? What other information is related to the
question?
Choose Answer:
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct
answer?
Reflection on Process:
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the
process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?