Metabolism and Adverse Conditions

Question 1

Aestivation

Answer 1

Type of dormancy which enables some animals to survive periods of excessive heat and drought.

Question 2

Consequential

Answer 2

Type of dormancy which takes place after the arrival of the adverse conditions.

Question 3

Cyclic fluctuation

Answer 3

Regular variation in environmental conditions often beyond the tolerable limits of an organism’s metabolism.

Question 4

Daily torpor

Answer 4

Physiological state in which an animal’s metabolic rate becomes reduced for part of each 24 hour cycle.

Question 5

Dormancy

Answer 5

Period of an organism’s life-cycle during which growth and development temporarily come to a halt.

Question 6

Hibernation

Answer 6

Type of predictive dormancy which enables some animals to survive adverse winter.

Question 7

Individual marking

Answer 7

Use of bands or tags to track the route and distance covered by a migratory animal.

Question 8

Inate

Answer 8

Behaviour which is inherited and inflexible.

Question 9

Learned

Answer 9

Behaviour which is gained by experience and flexible.

Question 10

Migration

Answer 10

Regular long-distance movement by the members of a species from one place to another where each place offers conditions more favourable than the other for a part of the year.

Question 11

Predictive

Answer 11

Type of dormancy which takes place before the arrival of the adverse conditions.

Question 12

Transmitter

Answer 12

Specialised piece of equipment attached to migratory animals which emits signals indicating the animal’s route.