Mini-assessment - Plant and Animal Adaptations

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Gills are an adaptation that fish have for?

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breathing

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What does it mean to survive?

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to stay alive

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What habitat would an alligator's adaptation be most useful?

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Swamp

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Why might some plants have thorns?

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to stay safe from animals that want to eat the plant

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A behavior that disguises an organism as a different organism by acting like something else is called:

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Mimicry

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What is an adaptation?

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A feature or behavior that helps an animal survive.

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An animal's color or pattern that helps it blend into its surroundings

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Camouflage

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Which of these BEST describes how some birds survive when the weather gets cold? Options: a. They store twigs and sticks in their nest, b. They migrate to a warmer climate, c. They grow more feathers to stay warm in the winter, d. They hide in bushes and wait for warm weather

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They migrate to a warmer climate

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A wasp beetle has the same body markings as a wasp. This helps the wasp beetle because predators think it's a wasp. This adaptation is called...?

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mimicry

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Which example below is a behavioral adaptation?

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A pack of wolves chase a moose.