Chapter 11: Food, Energy, and Temperature at Work: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places Third Edition Hill • Wyse • Anderson

1. Reindeer have low energy costs in cold environments because of their a. skin. b. hooves. c. pelage. d. hypodermis. e. anthers. Answer: c Textbook Reference: Food, Nutrition, Energy Metabolism, and Thermoregulation in the Lives of Adult Reindeer, p. 278 Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering 2. In winter, reindeer fur is a. 3–4 cm thick. b. 1–2 cm thick. c. 3–4 cm long. d. 1–2 cm long. e. shed completely. Answer: a Textbook Reference: Food, Nutrition, Energy Metabolism, and Thermoregulation in the Lives of Adult Reindeer, p. 278 Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering 3. In winter, reindeer have low energy costs because they a. increase their respiratory rate. b. increase their heart rate. c. change their behavior by constantly moving to warm up. d. maintain different temperatures in different body parts. e. hide in caves where the temperature is warmer. Answer: d Textbook Reference: Food, Nutrition, Energy Metabolism, and Thermoregulation in the Lives of Adult Reindeer, p. 278 Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering 4. According to the experiment done by Nilssen et al. (1984), the resting metabolic rate in adult reindeer during winter a. increases drastically as the air temperature changes from –40°C to –20°C. © 2012 Sinauer Associates, Inc. b. increases as the air temperature changes from –20°C to 0°C. c. decreases significantly as the air temperature changes from 20°C to 40°C. d. remains about the same as the air temperature changes from 0°C to 10°C. e. decreases drastically as the air temperature changes from 0°C to 10°C. Answer: d Textbook Reference: Food, Nutrition, Energy Metabolism, and Thermoregulation in the Lives of Adult Reindeer, p. 278 Bloom’s Category: 3. Applying 5. Oleic acid is _______ and contains _______ double bond(s).