Exam 7: Animal Adaptations to the Environment

Some herbivorous mammals have four-chambered stomachs in which fermentation occurs in the first chamber,known as the ________.

Coprophagy is common among animals that feed on detritus.

Herbivores typically prefer plants with the highest concentrations of ________,an element that is probably detected by taste and odor.

Animals that generate body heat metabolically at some times and from the environment at other times are referred to as ________.

To conserve heat in a cold environment and to cool vital parts of the body under heat stress,some animals have a ________ heat exchange system.

The ________ zone is a range of environmental temperatures within which homeothermic metabolic rates are minimal.

In this figure,the slope of the lines for active lizards and inactive ones suggests that

Terrestrial animals are usually subject to more radical changes in their thermal environment than aquatic animals.

A marine fish is ________ and tends to ________ water to/from the environment.

Which of the following is a major problem for animals that live in hyperosmotic environments?

The ingestion of fecal material for further extraction of nutrients is referred to as

An animal has a very thin layer of insulation between its body core and surface causing it to have a very high ________.

Smaller bodies have a larger surface area relative to their ________ than do larger objects of the same size.

Animals that feed exclusively on the tissues of other animals are called ________.

Flying insects have a high metabolic rate when flying and can produce as much heat as endotherms.

Which of the following factors does not influence animal heat exchange?

Air flow through bird lungs is a continuous circuit,flowing in one direction only.

Using the figure,the country of ________ may possibly lose migrating ungulate populations if global climate change shifted precipitation patterns.

The seasonal cessation of activities accompanied by a reduction in metabolism in response to cold temperatures during winter is called

Homeostatic systems work within minimum and maximum values by using positive feedback to regulate activity above and below a set point.