Wild Life (Animal Diversity & Habitats) – Quiz 1

1. ____________ traits are related in the sense that they share common ancestry.

2. ____________ traits are similar due to reasons other than relatedness.

3. ____________ wear and replacement is one of several methods for aging white tailed deer.

4. _____________ is the science of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups.

5. ______________ are considered among the most sensitive indicators of climate change.

6. ______________ is the organized colloidal complex of organic and inorganic substances as proteins and water that constitutes the living nucleus cytoplasm plastids and mitochondria of the cell.

7. ______________ is the study of the form and structure of animals and plants.

8. ______________ is the total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume.

9. ____________ are currently legally harvested for commercial trade and export in Australia.

10. ____________ is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of animal behavior.

11. _____________ is a free for all scramble as individuals try to beat others to a limited pool of resources.

12. _______________ refers to the removal of physiologically active material as by herbivore eating clipping and trampling.

13. _______________ traits are those with similar structures and functions but which evolved independently.

14. ______________ is a hierarchical process involving a series of innate and learned behavioral decisions made by an animal about what habitat it would use at different scales of the environment.

15. ________________ is a state of behavioral change wherein anxiety is relieved behavioral responses suppressed and the animal is relaxed but aware of its surroundings.

16. ______________ is essential for the survival of each cell and each cell through its specialized activities contributes as part of a body system to the maintenance of the internal environment shared by all cells.

17. ______________ is the convenience and procurability of physical and biological components of a habitat by animals.

18. Which type of growth occurs when a populations growth slows or stops following a period of exponential growth?

19. With regards to population, which one of the following concepts is also known as the Allee effect?

20. Within the last 400 years, which one of the following mammals is on the verge of completely disappearing from Pakistan?