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Zoology Test
Units 1 and 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a predator? | An animal that chases, captures and eats other animals |
| What are digitigrades? | Animals that walk on their toes |
| What are prey? | The animals that are captured and eaten by other animals |
| Which dog is called the painted wolf? | African wild dog |
| Why do some animals that have sharp teeth not eat meat? | Their teeth are used for other things like the panda using his to peel bamboo shoots or bite into skins of fruits |
| What does opportunistic mean? | When an animal changes its diet to adapt to the change in its surroundings. |
| How do you habituate an animal? | By taking the time to slowly get closer and closer to them without causing them a threat. |
| What is the dog's keenest sense? | smell |
| What is a recessive gene? | one that is masked |
| What is a dominant gene? | The one that "wins" and is visible in a living creature |
| What are the names of the dominant pair in a pack of dogs? | alpha female and alpha male |
| What species does our domesticated dog come from? | canis familiaris |
| What 2 groups is the order carnivora split into? | caniforms and feliforms |
| Since all carnivora have teeth for grinding do they all eat meat? | No |
| What do all animals in the order carnivora have in common? | molars and premolars |
| Through what glands do animals communicate? | scent |
| What is the epidermis? | the outer layer of skin(mostly made of dead tissue) |
| What is the dermis? | it is the layer of skin that is alive and contains gland-organs that make and release chemicals |
| What are the 4 different kinds of teeth mammals have? | incisors, canines, molars, and premolars |
| How is a reptiles lower jaw different than that of a mammal? | mammals can move their mouths up and down and back and forth unlike the reptile whose jaw works like the hinge on a door and only moves up and down. |
| Why is it not wise to feed wild animals? | When the food is gone they may get aggressive and attack. |
| What is a farrier? | a person who specifically cares for horses hooves |
| Even though a habituated animal may be used to certain people that does not mean that they are actually what? | Tame animals |
| What are zoonotic diseases | diseases that are transmitted between animals and people |
| What did Scientist Jane Goodall do? | she was able to study chimpanzees through habituation for many years in Africa. |
| What is animal habituation? | When scientists try to get animals used to them in order to study them in their own environment and study their normal behavior |
| Why can't different scientists come in once an animal or group of animals have been habituated? | Because the animals get use to the sight, smell and sounds of individual people |
| According to Gen 1:29-31 What were the animals originally given to eat? | green plants |
| What do you call someone who studies animals and their behavior, habitat and anatomy? | a zoologist |
| Why would we call a zoo a "false habitat?" | because animals do not behave the same way in a zoo that they would in the wild in their own habitat. They atdapt to their environment in the zoo therefore they adjust their normal behavior to their new surroundings . |
| What is another word for hooves? | ungulates |
| What happened that changed what the animals originally ate in the beginning of the world? | sin and death |
| The fact that some animals have been given camouflage by God to help them survive at the expense of others animals that do not survive is called what? | natural selection |
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