Across
- 3. exhibiting a readiness to defend an area against intruders
- 5. suggested solution to an unexplained occurrence
- 9. - The use of signals to transfer information between individuals.
- 13. - needing companionship and therefore best suited to living in communities
- 15. - Disguise
- 18. the sequence of changes that have occurred over time as an ancestral trait becomes modifies and takes on a new form
- 21. symbiotic relationship when an organism lives in or on a host
- 22. when a female animal has multiple mating partners in one season
- 24. Navigation: The use of a star to coordinate movement
- 25. sense of hearing
- 27. animals that only eat plants
- 28. When adults of a species kill their young it is known as
- 30. a genetically distinct set of rules for traits exhibited by individuals
- 33. A match of a species to a specific environmental condition
- 34. Selection - the process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change (only the strong survive)
- 35. production of offspring
- 38. - Qualities a person has at birth; genetic
- 43. Foraging: prediction that an animal will forage to maximize calories
- 45. Variable: the variable that is measured in an experiment
- 47. When animals have more than one partner for reproduction
- 48. a behavior that animals develop from experience in their lifetime
- 49. another word for young
- 50. - An interaction between two individuals competing over resources.
Down
- 1. - When animals pick up and leave to a new zip code.
- 2. angry behavior over an object or towards others
- 4. - the biological mechanism by which organisms adjust to new environments or to changes in their current environment
- 6. evolutionary reasons for a behavior
- 7. the scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals.
- 8. a 24-hour cycle for a behavior
- 10. Variable: the variable which changes in an experiment
- 11. Clock - an innate mechanism that controls the physiological activities of an organism which change on a daily, seasonal, yearly, or other regular cycle
- 12. Control: an experimental group with a known result
- 14. Factors: factors that can affect the variable which is supposed to be measured
- 16. Two animals engaging in reproduction
- 17. - an individual connected by blood or marriage
- 19. a behavioral pattern that is enabled by an underlying hereditary mechanism of some sort
- 20. Behavior: changes in behavioral and body processes
- 21. immediate cause for a behavior
- 23. Control: an experimental group that should produce no result
- 26. Memory- when an animal remembers where stuff is
- 29. animals that only eat meat
- 31. - A stimulus passed from one animal to another. It could be vocal, visual, chemical, or physical.
- 32. - an English naturalist born in 1809 whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies
- 36. animals that eat a mix of meat and plants
- 37. Animals that are mostly active at night
- 39. Scent signaling chemicals that are released by some animals, often as a part of a courtship ritual. Mmm, smells like someone is available.
- 40. animals that are the most dominant in a group
- 41. Filtering: the capacity of nerve cells and neural networks to ignore stimuli that could potentially elicit a response from them
- 42. When animals have only one partner for reproduction
- 44. - the number of deaths in the population in a given period of time
- 46. a bouncing behavior performed by gazelles