Surviving Adverse Conditions

Question 1

explain the importance of surviving or avoiding adverse conditions

Answer 1

Many environments vary beyond the tolerable limits for the normal metabolic activity of an organism. Some animals have adapted to survive these adverse conditions while others avoid them

Question 2

name five types of dormancy

Answer 2

predictive, consequential, hibernation, aestivation, daily torpor

Question 3

define predictive dormancy

Answer 3

an organism becomes dormant before the arrival of adverse conditions (usually genetically programmed)

Question 4

define consequential dormancy

Answer 4

an organism becomes dormant after the arrival of adverse conditions (occurs in unpredictable conditions)

Question 5

define hibernation

Answer 5

a form of dormancy which allows mammals to survive. adverse winter conditions before hibernation, a mammal eats extra food to store as fat. during hibernation metabolic rate is decreased

Question 6

Define aestivation

Answer 6

A form of dormancy which allows organisms to survive high temp and drought in summer

Question 7

Define migration

Answer 7

A method of avoiding adverse conditions by expending energy to relocate to a more suitable environment

Question 8

Describe ways of tracking migration

Answer 8

Individual marking= marking organisms and attempting recapture. Transmitters= attached to animals bodies

Question 9

Describe innate influences

Answer 9

Inherited behaviour. Inflexible

Question 10

Describe learned influences

Answer 10

Gained through experience. Begins after birth