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#Question id: 3429

Which of the following is a behavioral pattern that results from a proximate cause?

#Section 2: Evolution

A cat kills a mouse to obtain food.
A male sheep fights with another male because it helps it to improve its social position and find a mate.
A female bird lays its eggs because the amount of daylight is decreasing slightly each day.
A goose squats and freezes motionless because that behavior helps it to escape a predator.

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#Question id: 12324

#Section 1: Ecology

According to the nonequilibrium model,

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#Question id: 12323

#Section 1: Ecology

Which of the following is considered by ecologists a measure of the ability of a community either to resist change or to recover to its original state after change?

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#Question id: 12322

#Section 1: Ecology

Which of the following could qualify as a top-down control on a grassland community?

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#Question id: 12321

#Section 1: Ecology

Based on the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, a community's species diversity is

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#Question id: 12320

#Section 1: Ecology

Animals that help other animals of the same species are expected to

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#Question id: 12318

#Section 1: Ecology

The evolution of mating systems is most likely affected by