SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
NCEA Level 3: Animal Plant Responses
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
NCEA
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A hormone that promotes seed and bud germination - stem elongation - and leaf growth; stimulate flowering and development of fruit; affect root growth and differentiation
Gibberellins
Optic Lobes
Kineses
Submissive
2. When an animal is active around sunrise and sunset.
Taxes
Crepuscular
Polygamy
Monogamy
3. Serves as a navigational cue. Many birds use star patterns and movement for navigation.
Phase Shift
Endogenous
Star Compass
Antagonist
4. Orienting or directing homeward or to a destination
Hormones
Pigment
Homing
Dormancy
5. Mating behaviour in which a number of males and females mates with each other.
Crepuscular
Polygynandry
Circannual
Cytokinins
6. Prolonged relationship between male and female - associated with joint parental care
Biological Orientation
Cytokinins
Pair Bonding
Klinotaxes
7. Movement of the whole organism towards or away from a stimulus coming from one direction
Tropisms
Kin Selection
Taxes
Mimicry
8. A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react.
Mimicry
Abscisic Acid
Stimulus
Diurnal
9. A plant hormone that brings about dormancy in buds - mantains dormancy in seeds - and brings about stomatal closing - among other effects.
Tropisms
Hibernation
Abscisic Acid
Nastic Responses
10. When one organism has power over another
Hibernation
Dormancy
Dominance
Critical Day Length
11. Behaviors that have been developed by experience rather than by having them from birth
Phase Shift
Beta
Learned
Biological Clock
12. Cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter
Pigment
Nocturnal
Optic Lobes
Hibernation
13. Disposed to attack; militant; assertive; pushing
Receptors
Diurnal
Kin Selection
Aggresive
14. The lobes of the brain that receive signals from the receptors in the eyes
Polygynandry
Effectors
Auxin
Optic Lobes
15. This is the growth towards or away from a stimulus coming from one direction. If the movement is towards the stimulus it is positive - if it is away from the stimulus it is negative
Monogamy
Klinotaxes
Gibberellins
Tropisms
16. Derived or originating externally
Nastic Responses
Cooperative Interactions
Star Compass
Exogenous
17. Having more than one spouse at a time
Exogenous
Polygamy
Kin Selection
Alpha
18. Stimulates cell division and growth of lateral buds. Causes dormant seeds to sprout.
Cytokinins
Hibernation
Monogamy
Optic Lobes
19. Aggressive or defensive social behavior (fighting - fleeing - submitting) between individuals of the same species
Submissive
Polyandry
Agonistic
Long Day Plant
20. A cue using the earths magnetic field
Effectors
Geomagnetic Cues
Migration
Alpha
21. A colored chemical compound that absorbs light - producing color
Cytokinins
Hibernation
Learned
Pigment
22. Reversible growth or turgor movement in response to a non directional stimulus
Octogram
Hierarchy
Nastic Responses
Dominance
23. Having a daily cycle or occurring every day
Critical Day Length
Octogram
Kineses
Diurnal
24. Cause responses that alter conditions in the internal environment
Critical Day Length
Hormones
Effectors
Circadian
25. Plant that generally requires long nights-- 12 or more hours of darkness to begin the flowering process.
Short Day Plant
Optic Lobes
Effectors
Tropisms
26. An innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity of many physiological functions
Circadian
Territory
Biological Clock
Kineses
27. Special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external environment
Cytokinins
Receptors
Taxes
Pineal
28. Plant that generally requires short nights-- less that 10-12 hours of darkness to begin the flowering process.
Migration
Polygamy
Free Running Period
Long Day Plant
29. When the amount of random turning is related to the intensity of a stimulus (unorientated response)
Klinokinesis
Endogenous
Klinotaxes
Octogram
30. Willing to submit without resistance to authority
Hibernation
Short Day Plant
Submissive
Beta
31. When organisms orient themselves either towards or away from a stimulus
Abscisic Acid
Biological Orientation
Hormones
Alpha
32. The process by which evolution selects for genes that cause individuals to provide benefits to their relatives
Kin Selection
Stimulus
Abscisic Acid
Long Day Plant
33. Derived or originating internally
Endogenous
Monogamy
Diapause
Geomagnetic Cues
34. The periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
Phase Shift
Long Day Plant
Migration
Phytochrome
35. Substance produced in the tip of a seedling that stimulates cell elongation
Nastic Responses
Auxin
Receptors
Circadian
36. This is a non-directional response to a stimulus or a change in activity rate in response to a change in the intensity of the stimulus
Kineses
Circannual
Learned
Gibberellins
37. Period of dormancy - usually seasonal - which growth and development cease and metabolism is greatly reduced
Diapause
Star Compass
Pineal
Circannual
38. Yearly activity period - approximately 360 days
Circannual
Stimulus
Homing
Critical Day Length
39. Any area that an animal defends against other animals
Courtship
Alpha
Hierarchy
Territory
40. Diagram showing the periods of activity and rest of an organism over a number of twenty four hour periods so that trends in activity can be identified
Aggresive
Octogram
Pineal
Hibernation
41. A polygamous mating system involving one male and many females
Polygyny
Kineses
Free Running Period
Antagonist
42. Plant hormone that stimulates fruit ripening and leaf drop
Polygyny
Optic Lobes
Ethylene
Circadian
43. The environmental agent that resets the biological clock e.g: change in light - temperature
Zeitgeber
Star Compass
Phase Shift
Polygyny
44. Chemical messengers that are manufactured by the endocrine glands - travel through the bloodstream - and affect other tissues
Endogenous
Diapause
Hormones
Beta
45. Of or relating to or occurring in the night
Phytochrome
Receptors
Nocturnal
Pair Bonding
46. Foe - opponent - adversary
Pair Bonding
Short Day Plant
Antagonist
Sexual Dimorphism
47. A biological clock that enables a migrating bird or insect to fly using the sun and continuously adjust its angle to the sun while flying.
Ethylene
Dominance
Diurnal
Sun Compass
48. Working together between species or in a species
Innate
Ethylene
Cooperative Interactions
Optic Lobes
49. Having only one spouse at a time
Exogenous
Kin Selection
Monogamy
Diurnal
50. Located in the brain; secretes hormone melatonin; in some species - it regulates the biological clock and biorhythms
Sun Compass
Courtship
Nocturnal
Pineal