CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING.Animal Camouflage Directions: Choose the correct word or words to complete the sentence. 1. An ethologist ethologist a person skilled in ethology. studies (animal behavior, animal diseases). 2. Zebras camouflage by (disruptive coloration col·or·a·tion n. 1. Arrangement of colors. 2. The sum of the beliefs or principles of a person, group, or institution. , disguise). 3. Walking stick bugs camouflage by (disruptive coloration, disguise). 4. How living things Living Things may refer to:
5. Changes in heredity heredity, transmission from generation to generation through the process of reproduction in plants and animals of factors which cause the offspring to resemble their parents. That like begets like has been a maxim since ancient times. features over time are called (evolution, mimicry mimicry, in biology, the advantageous resemblance of one species to another, often unrelated, species or to a feature of its own environment. (When the latter results from pigmentation it is classed as protective coloration. ). ANSWER 1. animal behavior 2. disruptive coloration 3. disguise 4. fitness 5. evolution Buried Cities Directions: Determine if each statement below is true or false (circle the correct letter). If a sentence is false, rewrite it to make the sentence true. T F 1. Frank Goddio discovered the fabled Egyptian city Herakleion on a mountaintop moun·tain·top n. The summit of a mountain. . T F 2. Herakleion disappeared 2,000 years ago. T F 3. The ancient city of Zeugma zeug·ma n. 1. A construction in which a single word, especially a verb or an adjective, is applied to two or more nouns when its sense is appropriate to only one of them or to both in different ways, as in He took my advice and my wallet. , Turkey, is endangered by the rising waters of the newly dammed Euphrates River. T F 4. Zeugma is known for its beautiful sculptures. T F 5. La Gran Saposa, which may be the remains of the mythical El Dorado, is a pre-Aztec city. 1. False. Goddio discovered Herakleion while diving in the Mediterranean Sea. 2. False. Heraldeion disappeared 1,300 years ago. 3. True. 4. False. Zeugma is known for its spectacular mosaic floors. 5. False. La Gran Saposa houses ruins of a pre-Incan city. Remote Control Surgery Directions: Answer the questions below in complete sentences. 1. What kind of operations are currently being performed by remote control surgery? 2. What does the robot look like? 3. Where is the surgeon during remote control surgery and how does he manipulate the robotic arms? 4. Why is robotic heart surgery safer for the patient than conventional surgery? 5. What is the difference in a heart patient's recovery time from conventional versus, remote control surgery? 1. Heart operations are currently being performed by remote control surgery 2. Three 0.9 meter-long robotic arms are positioned above the patient. 3. Sitting several feet away at a console, the surgeon watches on a computer screen and moves robotic arms with two pencil-sized control sticks. 4. Unlike a normal heart operation, robotic surgery doesn't stop the heart and divert blood to a heart-lung machine heart-lung machine, device that maintains the circulation of the blood and the oxygen content of the body when connected with the arteriovenous system; it is also called the pump oxygenator. . Incisions are tiny instead of running from the patient's neck to abdomen. 5. Average recovery time from conventional heart surgery is six weeks, while recovery time from robotic surgery is one week. |
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