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35 Cards in this Set
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The difference between a parasitoid and a parasite is: |
parasitoids always kill their hosts while parasites usually do not harm their hosts |
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T or F: Spider webs capture flying insects and thus act as flight intercept traps. |
True |
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Weasels tend to kill their prey by using their canine teeth to: |
bite into the back of the prey's cranium and pierce its brain |
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A plant (like Indian Pipe) that does not make its own food but gets its carbon products from other plants through the help of a fungal partner is known as a: |
mycoheterotroph |
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T or F: In order to give support to their penis when mating, Walrus have a very large penis bone (baculum) |
True |
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The special hold that male frogs and toads use when mating is called: |
amplexus |
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A baby clam is known as a: |
glochidium |
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Plants with highly dissected leaves would likely grow in: |
sunny field |
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T or F: Birds are able to sing two songs simultaneously. |
True |
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Gray Jays |
cache (store) thousands of edible items through the summer and fall have enlarged salivary glands that are used to wrap food in a saliva blanket have an excellent spatial memory for finding stored food nest early early (often by early March), long before most other birds start nesting |
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Risks that arise from advertising for a mate include: |
being found by a predator |
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T or F: One common solution to the shade problem is for wildflowers to bloom in early spring. |
True |
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A female Ebony Jewelwing tells a male that she is interested in mating with him by: |
clapping her wings in the air above her back |
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The number one problem facing predators is: |
starvation |
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What is NOT true concerning antlers of buck deer and bull moose: |
antlers are also called "horns" because they are made of compressed hair |
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T or F: To attract mates, male Ruffed Grouse gather together and perform ritualized dances in large areas called leks. |
False (Ruffed Grouse drum on logs and have wonderful ruff and tail displays to attract females but do not dance at leks like Sharp-tailed and other prairie grouse do.) |
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Pheromones are: |
chemicals released by animals, often for mate attraction |
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Sundews grow in peatlands and attain many of their nutrients by: |
catching insects with adhesive leaf traps |
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Endoparasites: |
Iive inside a host usually do not harm their hosts, especially the definitive host often change hosts and reproduce in a definitive host sometimes change the behaviour of an intermediate host, making it more vulnerable to being eaten by a definitive host |
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T or F: Courtship gifts are often given by male predatory animals (i.e., Dance Flies, Scorpionflies, some spiders) in order to avoid being eaten while mating with the female |
True |
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T or F: colour is a long range attractant for insects |
True |
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T or F: many flowers are red because that colour is very popular with bees |
False |
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Which of these wildflowers has an "explosive" sex life: |
Bunchberry |
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Pheromones are chemicals that are used for this purpose: |
social wasps (such as yellowjackets) to get colony members to attack a possible predator female silk moths to attract a male mate eastern wolves to define their territory boundaries female garter snakes to attract male mates |
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T or F: Female Choice is the reason bull Moose have antlers |
True |
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Male Dragonflies use their claspers to: |
hold a female by the back of her head during mating |
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This animal drums to attract a mate |
Pileated Woodpecker |
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T or F: male garter snakes have two hemipenes and can mate with two females at one time |
False |
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Brood patches are: |
bare skin on the bellies of birds for incubating eggs |
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T or F: Elaiosomes are special protein packages on seeds that attract ants for dispersal. |
True |
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Flight intercept traps are prey-capturing adaptations used by: |
orb-weaver spiders |
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T or F: Opossums have a very long gestation period and then nourish their babies in a belly pouch for another long period of time |
False |
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T or F:plants that use the wind for pollination produce vast small amounts of pollen |
False (they produce lots!) |
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Which of these is NOT an aid for seed dispersal: |
capitellum |
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T or F: Turtles lay many eggs and guard them until they hatch. |
False |