BIO 1409 Assignment 12 Quiz – Biology 2 Lecture

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What is one way that acting as a selfish herd can protect members of the herd?
a. Cooperative hunting allows a group of predators to capture larger or faster prey.
b. Subordinate group members provide food for offspring of dominant members.
c. Members of groups learn tool production skills.
d. When an animal notices another group member beginning to flee, it will do likewise, producing the “confusion effect.”
e. Group members fend off scavengers.

QUESTION 2

Ivan Pavlov rang a bell whenever he fed a dog, and later the dog salivated at the sound of the bell. What term best describes this experiment?
a. operant conditioning
b. habituation
c. imprinting
d. classical conditioning
e. social learning

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In a dominance hierarchy, why would subordinate members remain part of the group?
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Male songbirds exposed only to the songs of other species will eventually sing
a. no song at all
b. a simplified version of their own species’ song
c. the other species’ song
d. a perfect version of their own species’ song
e. a mixture of their own species’ song and the song of the other species

QUESTION 5

Voles with a large number of receptors in their brains for oxytocin are likely to be:
a. aggressive
b. promiscuous
c. monogamous
d. migratory
e. territorial

QUESTION 6

The amount of Earth’s surface required to support a particular level of development and consumption in a sustainable fashion is called:
a. demographic transition
b. ecological footprint
c. carrying capacity
d. replacement rate
e. logistic growth

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A J-shaped growth curve is converted to an S-shaped one:
a. when the parents are past reproductive age
b. if the data are plotted in reverse
c. only for fast-growing populations such as bacteria
d. if reproduction stops
e. when the carrying capacity is reached

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Describe three trends that have allowed the human population growth rate to soar in the past two centuries.
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Out of the countries listed, which has the largest ecological footprint?
a. Mexico
b. France
c. China
d. India
e. United States

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The ecological footprint is a measure of the:
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a. area required per person toQuestion
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b. amount of time required for a country to move from the pre-industrial to the post-industrial phase of demographic transition
c. number of live births per reproductive age woman per year in a country
d. number of acres squandered per person in unsustainable business and agricultural practices
e. amount of the Earth’s surface required to support a particular level of development and consumption in a sustainable fashion

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