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Adaptations and Traits

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  • Which of these investigations would best help the scientist determine whether this skill is a learned or an inherited behavior?
    C: Raising young sea otters away from adult otters that use rocks and observing whether the young otters use rocks
  • Which of these fish has mouth structures that allow it to eat algae by taking large bites of the hard coral on which the algae grows?
    F: Parrotfish
  • Which answer choice describes the rabbit as it interacts with two nonliving parts of the rabbit's habitat?
    A: The rabbit breathing air while running down a rocky path.
  • The primary role of the air trapped in the down feathers and fur is most likely to-
    C: provide a layer of insulation to help control body temperature
  • An interaction between two living parts of the environment is represented by-
    B Observation 3
  • Which of these is a trait that a crayfish most likely inherits from its parents?
    B: The number of legs it has
  • Which of these observations describes a learned behavior?
    A: Bees make return trips to drink sugar water from a bowl placed 40 meters from their hive.
  • Which statement related to inherited traits or learned behaviors is not correct?
    J: The behavior of a dog guiding a blind person on a walk through a neighborhood is an inherited trait only.
  • Instead, the head, shell shape, and flippers of sea turtles help them escape from predators mainly by allowing them to-
    B: swim and dive easily
  • Which statement describes advantage that only one of these animals has in obtaining food?
    D: The gerenuk has a long neck that allows it to reach high to eat from trees.