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Zoology 1/Test 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Patterns of stars in the sky | Constellations |
| The ability a bird has to reach its destination without getting lost | Homing Instinct |
| Donut shaped heat pockets in the air upon which some birds surf or glide | Thermals |
| What we call it when a bird's flight muscles pull the wing down | Down Stroke |
| Chemicals in a living creature that regulate behavior. These are believed to tell a bird when to migrate | Hormones |
| A device sailors once used to measure the position of the stars in order to navigate | Sextant |
| 3 Specific things birds use for navigation | Landmarks, Sun & Stars, Magnetic Field |
| The length of a day | Photoperiod |
| When animals sleep during the winter | Hibernate |
| What we call it when a bird's flight muscles pull the wings up | Up Stroke |
| The bone that makes up the bird's wing | Humerus (be able to locate and label) |
| The bone attached to the bird's flight muscles | Keel (be able to loate and label) |
| Be able to explain the different ways a bird steers | Tail used as a rudder, tilting onew wing higher than the other, flapping one wing faster than the other |
| Be able to explain a bird's special breathing sysytem | See page 68 |
| Explain why many birds fly in formation and name birds which do | See page 69 |
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