Exam 7: Animal Adaptations to the Environment

Coprophagy is common among detritus-feeding animals.

Only animals with sweat glands can take advantage of evaporative cooling.

Convective heat transfer is the movement of heat through solids or between two solids that are in direct contact.

Discuss the trade-offs between ectothermy and endothermy. Under what conditions is each strategy beneficial and why?

Parietal eyes are found in all the following animals, EXCEPT

Which of the following animals does NOT use lungs to acquire oxygen?

The isometric scaling exponent (0.67)represents the interaction of

The smallest animals are endotherms.

Oxygen is required in ________, a cellular process that releases energy through the breakdown of organic compounds.

All marine animals lack lungs.

Which of the following is NOT a known countercurrent heat exchange mechanism?

The homeothermic respiration rate is proportional to

Sharks and tuna are able to maintain a higher internal body temperature than the surrounding water because they possess

What factor is known to constrain animal body shape and size?

An organism that obtains its energy and most nutrients from consuming plants or animals is called a(n)________.

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

Flying insects have a high metabolic rate when flying and can produce as much or more heat than homeotherms.

Herbivores are unable to digest ________ and thus rely on the help of specialized bacteria and protozoa living in their digestive tracts.

The reproductive, or seasonal, activity is unaffected by day length in ________ organisms.

Use an example to explain the strategy used by a temporal heterotherm.