AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -It is essential for students to know that a complex set of responses to stimuli is called behavior. Behavioral responses refer to how animals cope with changes in their environments. Animals may respond to environmental stimuli through behaviors that include hibernation, migration, defense, and courtship.

Detailed explanation-2: -BEHAVIORAL PLASTICITY. Animals can respond to environmental change in 3 key ways: disperse, adjust through phenotypic plasticity, or adapt through genetic changes ( Williams et al.

Detailed explanation-3: -or US behavioral response. noun. a change in behaviour in response to a stimulus.

Detailed explanation-4: -These include behaviours in your own home, in the community and whilst on the move. For example, increasing the rates of recycling in your own home, reducing how much we buy, and increasing cycling instead of using the car.

Detailed explanation-5: -Humans may respond to environmental stress in four different ways: adaptation, developmental adjustment, acclimatization, and cultural responses. An adaptation is a genetically based trait that has evolved because it helps living things survive and reproduce in a given environment.