Animal behaviour - class-IX
Description: animal behaviour | |
Number of Questions: 92 | |
Created by: Rani Rajan | |
Tags: option a: neurobiology and behaviour biology nervous system and endocrine system control and coordination in living organisms animal behaviour control and coordination endocrine system and adolescence environmental management coordination - the linking system life processes in living organism coordination and response human organ systems control and co-ordination in plants and animals |
The main function of prolactin hormone is to
Which of the following hormones stimulates the production of milk?
Some hormones check the milk from being secreted by the mammary glands till the birth of young ones even though the glands are all prepared to do so. They are
Lemmings reduce their number by committing suicide every
On seeing a snake, the prey becomes motionless because
Fish do not need to learn how to swim is an example of ________ behavior.
In turtles, the ducts of chloride secreting glands open near the?
A frog has its brain crushed, but when pinched on the leg, the leg draws away. It is an example of
State true or false. Correct false statement.
Group influence individual behaviour.
Which of the following is incorrect w.r.t scientific names of the given animal?
The anadromous migretory animals are
Which animal is having less number of Chromosomes?
Which of the following survives a temperature of $104^o$C to $106^o$C?
Match the animals given in column A with their location in column B.
Column A | Column B | ||
---|---|---|---|
I. | Dodo | (i) | Africa |
II. | Quagga | (ii) | Russia |
III. | Thylacine | (iii) | Mauritius |
IV. | Stellar's sea cow | (iv) | Australia |
Choose the correct match from the following.
Which of the following dinosaurs had huge fearsome dagger like teeth and was about $20$ feet in height?
Find the mismatch
Which of the following are the most distantly related to one another?
The bats can fly in the dark because
Bears are usually hunted and killed for their
Identify the wrong statement from the following:
Continued secretion of milk is regulated by
To yield more milk, cow is injected with
Breast milk at room temperature can be stored for
A lizard-like member of Reptilia is sitting on a tree with its tail coiled around a twig. This animal could be
Which of the following explains correctly that salmon return to their specific home stream to spawn?
Which is not true of breast milk?
Which of the following does not show mating behaviour?
Mimicry always involves a model and a mimic as well as a dupe or signal receiver (the organism the mimic is trying to fool). An example of Batesian mimicry is
All of the following show a means of communication except
Fish are given food at the same time as a tap on their glass bowl and soon learn to approach when a tap sounds even in the absence of food.
Which of the following behaviour takes place in an animals life at a certain critical time?
When the sperms of Funaria and Pteris are put together
near the archegonia of Pteris, only the sperms of Pteris
readily enter the archegonia and reach the egg. The reason
being that
Which of the following explains the return of salmon to their own birth place to breed?
Organisms within a community have developed defenses against predators. Identify the type of defense described in the following 4 questions using the answers provided. Answer choices may be used once, more than once or not at all.
Skunks spray a toxic substance when they are threatened. This is an example of
Sinking of zooplankton during the day and rising to the
surface at night is an example of
Which of the following sets is of flightless birds
Sea cows are aquatic mammals included under
Which of them is in tracheae group
The immunoglobulin abundant in colostrum is
The yellow-coloured milk secreted by cattle soon after the birth of a calf is called as
Cows and buffaloes remain in heat for :
Waking up to a bulbul's song in the morning is related to
In mastitis there is excessive growth/ inflammation of :
Animals exposed to bright light have
Altruistic behaviours between closely related animals are selected for because they
Birds use for navigation and direction
Which is not true of Scirpophaga incertulus?
By and large animals belonging to different species don't mate together, but occasionally animals of different species can mate in captivity. Which two animals are known to mate together in captivity?
_______ are modified to form tendrlis in cucumber.
Select the incorrect match.
Taxon | Category |
---|---|
$(1)$ Insect | Class |
$(2)$ Tiger | Species |
$(3)$ Crucifers | Family |
$(4)$ Orchid | Order |
The highest sound frequency which a human being can detect is 20,000 vibrations/second. What is the highest frequency which a bat can detect?
Which of the following will have the maximum concentration of harmful chemicals in its body ? Eagle, Grass, Snake, Frog, Grasshopper
Which among the following is a simple act of learning that involving loss of sensitivity to unimportant stimuli?
Identify the correct chronological sequence of periods of Mesozoic era:
Read the following passage and answer the following question.
A group of 10 newly hatched chicks was separated into two smaller groups containing five chicks each. One group (Group A) was left with the mother hen, the other group (Group B) was taken shortly after hatching and kept with a mother goose. The chicks in Group A displayed normal behavior and followed the mother hen around. The chicks in Group B followed the mother goose around and exhibited goose like behavior, such as swimming. After one week, Group B was reunited with the mother hen, but ignored her, and instead continued to follow the mother goose around the barnyard.
The behaviour exhibited by the chicks in Group B is
Which of the following occurs only at a certain, critical time in an animal's life?
Which of the following is a simple form of learned behaviour?
The behaviour of organisms belonging to the same species is shown by
Identify the animal behavior.
Geese recognize a ringing bell as mother if exposed to it during a critical period shortly after hatching.
Read the following passage and answer the following question.
A
group of 10 newly hatched chicks was separated into two smaller groups
containing five chicks each. One group (Group A) was left with the
mother hen, the other group (Group B) was taken shortly after hatching
and kept with a mother goose. The chicks in Group A displayed normal
behavior and followed the mother hen around. The chicks in Group B
followed the mother goose around and exhibited goose like behavior, such
as swimming. After one week, Group B was reunited with the mother hen,
but ignored her, and instead continued to follow the mother goose around
the barnyard. If exposed to a mother pig during the period shortly after hatching, the chicks in Group B would exhibit
In batesian mimicry, one species resembles another, poisonous species.
I. Poisonous species is more common than mimic
II. Poisonous species is present in same area as mimic
III. Poisonous species competes for resources with mimic
IV. Poisonous species is distinctly or brightly colored
A behavioral strategy of adaptation called echolocation is found in
The bird which can imitate human speech is
Drinking alcohol to fit into the group is described by
Pavlov used dog to investigate .......... behaviour.
Which of the following animal imitate humans?
Which of the following behaviour is generated due to adrenaline rush?
Which of the following human behavior is more harmful than useful?
Belding's ground squirrel is a species whose females produce a shrill alarm call when predators are close by. The ground squirrels that sound this call are more likely to be eaten by those predators than those who do not sound alarm calls. This behaviour persists in the population of ground squirrels because
Which behaviour completely relies on stimulus?
Which of the following factors affect the human behaviour?
Which of the following is the behaviour of social learning?
In the first year, a child attempts to speech when mother directed her, is described by
People are afraid of the snake, an example of which human behaviour?
Which of the following is the positive stimulus of the conditioning behaviour?
Learning is associated with
Which of the following organism was used as an experimental model for the investigation of conditioning behaviour?
Imitation is
Identify the animal behaviour from the given statement.
Ants usually go in a line to reach sweets kept in a box.
Human behaviour is more complex because
Organisms reproducing throughout the year are called ______ breeders e.g., _____, and those who show recurring sexual activity are called _______ breeders e.g., _________.
Which one of the following is not true of singing in male birds?
A small area occupied by single males for displaying courtship traits is called
Both reptiles and birds share a number of anatomical features which led biologists to believe that birds descended from reptiles. What are those features?
Which of the following is not true?
Conditioning behaviour that uses neutral stimulus is called as
Animal behaviour is based on
Instinct behaviour is
A behaviour that can modify by reinforcement and punishment is called as
The production of sounds by some insects by rubbing together parts of the body, usually to attract a female, is known as