BIOL 1902 Midterm Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Skunks are black and white because this colour pattern makes them
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better camouflaged for night activity. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-T
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Flocking in birds offers this benefit:
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Select one: |
a. birds never get lonely
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b. birds do not get lost
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c. flocks are able to find food more easily
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d. a flock provides more eyes to watch for danger and lessens the odds
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of being caught for each bird in the flock - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-d
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American Bitterns have streaks down their breast because the stripes:
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a. are a type of masquerade
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b. allow a bittern to hide in cattail marshes
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c. make the bittern look larger (taller) than it really is
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d. make bitterns blend into a forest with vertical tree trunks
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e. are disruptive patterns for camouflage Incorrect - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-allow a bittern to hide in cattail marshes | | | | | | |
, Chipping Sparrows have a black line through the eye and a white stripe
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above it. These marks are called: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-disruptive
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patterns
if you see a caterpillar covered in yellow and red spines, you would
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suspect that it: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-background matching
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When Underwing Moths open their wings, this happens - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-bright patterns startle a predator | | | |
Giant Swallowtail caterpillars use masquerade as their first defence -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-T |
Monarch butterfly caterpillars are not good to eat because they contain
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cardiac glycosides (terpenoids). They get these by eating milkweed
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leaves. The way they acquire the toxins is known as - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-sequestering
Bright colours worn by insects that are poisonous are known as: -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-aposematic colouration
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a number of animals, non-related and all armed with some defence,
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look like each other - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Mullerian Mimicry
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Correct Answers
Skunks are black and white because this colour pattern makes them
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better camouflaged for night activity. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-T
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Flocking in birds offers this benefit:
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Select one: |
a. birds never get lonely
| | | |
b. birds do not get lost
| | | | |
c. flocks are able to find food more easily
| | | | | | | |
d. a flock provides more eyes to watch for danger and lessens the odds
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of being caught for each bird in the flock - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-d
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American Bitterns have streaks down their breast because the stripes:
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a. are a type of masquerade
| | | | |
b. allow a bittern to hide in cattail marshes
| | | | | | | |
c. make the bittern look larger (taller) than it really is
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d. make bitterns blend into a forest with vertical tree trunks
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e. are disruptive patterns for camouflage Incorrect - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-allow a bittern to hide in cattail marshes | | | | | | |
, Chipping Sparrows have a black line through the eye and a white stripe
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
above it. These marks are called: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-disruptive
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patterns
if you see a caterpillar covered in yellow and red spines, you would
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
suspect that it: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-background matching
| | | | | |
When Underwing Moths open their wings, this happens - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-bright patterns startle a predator | | | |
Giant Swallowtail caterpillars use masquerade as their first defence -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-T |
Monarch butterfly caterpillars are not good to eat because they contain
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cardiac glycosides (terpenoids). They get these by eating milkweed
| | | | | | | | |
leaves. The way they acquire the toxins is known as - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-sequestering
Bright colours worn by insects that are poisonous are known as: -
| | | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-aposematic colouration
| |
a number of animals, non-related and all armed with some defence,
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look like each other - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Mullerian Mimicry
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