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| organisms that are active at night; sleep during the day. Ex: owls, mice, rats, bats, rabbits, hamsters, cats, deer, snakes. |
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| organisms that are active during the day, sleep at night. Ex: humans, horses, dogs, bluebirds, cows, squirrels. |
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| an area where an organism lives, hunts, breeds, and raise young. |
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| they will protect their territory by: |
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| making noises, marking their territory with pheromones, body language, fighting. |
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| using your body to show emotions. Ex: showing teeth, ruffiling fur or feathers, staring down. |
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| barking, growling, howling, purring or grunting. |
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| smells (urine, feces, musk, antler marks, claw marks) |
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| dances, moving antennae, etc. |
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| chemically produced odors that an organism produces for the following reasons: attract a mate- odor or musk to attract others; scare a predator- body odor or musk to scare; mark their territory- urinate or defecate around territory, or scratch trees with antlers/claws. |
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| Advantages to living in a group |
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| Safer to live in group- numbers protect each other- can warn each other of predators- hunt together- kill more or larger prey- find mates easier- protect young together |
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| DisAdvantages to living in a group |
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| Share food with other members of group, compete for mates, diseases spread faster, attracts predators |
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| Thar nonliving things in an organisms habitat or human made things. Ex: soil, water, air, plastic |
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