Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
sci guide dates
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Carl Linnaeus created the modern naming system taxonomy | 1735 |
| Aristotle was first to specifically write about animal behavior and the connection between humans and animals. | 300 BCE |
| Darwin published On the Origin of Species; later work showed that behavior is an inherited trait | 1859 |
| Tinbergen's four questions cause, development, function, and history | 1963 |
| part of peripheral system that handles sensation and movement | somatic system |
| part of peripheral system that sustains life | autonomic system (sympathetic and parasympathetic) |
| the only animals with no nervous system at all | Sponges and a few aquatic worms |
| Pavlovs dogs | 1890s |
| John Maynard Smith and George Price built the Hawk -Dove game | 1973 |
| Ronald Fisher proposed runaway selection in what year to explain the peacock’s tail | 1930s |
| African wild dogs and early humans follow prey until it is too tired to resist | Persistence hunters |
| Domestication began with dogs how long ago | 16,000 years ago |
| Dmitry Belyayev began breeding the tamest silver foxes in what year; by what year did they showed neoteny and read human emotion | 1952 and 1999 |
| the migratory restlessness animals show when the biological clock says it is time to go | Zugunruhe |
| Male garden warblers shrink their organs to cut weight, then grow their testes by over how many percent on arrival | 300% |
| The largest over-land migration is the great Nile migration in which multiple species of antelope, totaling approximately how many individuals, travel over a thousand miles across where | 6 million, south sudan |
| Pronghorn head where to avoid deep snow, because running is their only escape from predators | south |
| Humpback whales breed near the equator in winter and feed near the poles in summer, covering about how many miles a day | 100 miles a day |
| Johannes Schmidt discovered in what year that American eels spawn in the Sargasso Sea and die there | 1921 |
| Crossbreeding Eurasian blackcaps tied what genes to direction, body size, daylength sensitivity, and immunity | inherited genes |
| Feral hogs arrived in the ???, carry at least thirty diseases, and roam in groups of thirty to fifty | 1500s |
| Hinted at evolution in the early nineteenth century | Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
| Proposed runaway selection in the 1930s to explain the peacock | Ronald Fisher |
| The egg -laying mammals, such as the platypus and the echidna | Monotremes |
| Nerve bundle carrying sensation up and motor commands down | Spinal cord |
| Link between brain and spinal cord that relays autonomic messages | Brainstem |
| Molecule acting as a neurotransmitter in the brain and a hormone elsewhere | Oxytocin |
| Rebuilding plant and animal populations; the best long-term conservation tactic | Habitat restoration |
| The early circadian clock gene identified in fruit flies | Period |
| The early circadian clock gene identified in Neurospora crassa | Frequency |
| A red spot, not the whole parent, triggered begging pecks | Tinbergen and gull chicks |
| Approximate time of LUCA, the last universal common ancestor | 4.2 billion years ago |
| Earliest evidence of animals in the ancient oceans | 910 million years ago |
| When Pneumodesmus newmani walked and breathed on land | 420 million years ago |
| When the vertebrate nervous system evolved | 500 million years ago |
| When domestication began, with dogs | 16,000 years ago |
| When Aristotle documented animal behavior | 300 bce |
| Year Linnaeus established the modern naming system | 1735 |
| Publication of On the Origin of Species | 1859 |
| Year Schmidt found the eels’ spawning ground in the Sargasso Sea | 1921 |
| Year Belyayev began breeding the tamest silver foxes | 1952 |
| Year Tinbergen published his four questions | 1963 |
| Nobel Prize for Lorenz, Tinbergen, and von Frisch; also the Hawk -Dove game | 1973 |
| Where Darwin studied the animals that shaped natural selection | The Galapagos Islands |
| High ground where white -crowned sparrows breed before descending | The Sierra Nevada |
| Crossed by a desert locust swarm on wind currents in 1988 | The Atlantic Ocean |
| first animals with bones and spines was 375 million years ago | Resembled reptiles or amphibians (lived partially on land partially on water) |
| Oldest known mammel | Basilodon (225 million years ago with the dinos) |
| Natural selection- charles darwin | Mechanism that drives evolution (1830s) |
| Baset (ancient egyption goddess) | 2800BCE |
| Charles darwin pioneered | modern concept of ethology and natural selection |
| Aquatic worms/sponges | lack nervous system |
| Fruit fly used as model organism to study how animals determine when its time to sleep. | 1950s |
| Monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles up and down..? | West coast of North and central america. (monarchs) |
| Australian jewel beetles live in ??? | in dry arid climates of Australia (also jewel beetles are half an inch long) |
| foundation of the ability to learn | synaptic plasticity |
| Migration observed in bird species how long ago? | over 250,000 years ago |
| Northern elephant seal | usually solitary in pacific ocean, goes to west coast to breed |
| Pronghorns | Travel thousands of miles across central US once a year, travel south in winter. |
| American eels are found in | Along atlantic coast, in bays, freshwater rivers leading into atlantic ocean. |
Created by:
Riri:>