Adaptations

Adaptations

by Rebecca Walton

Multiple Choice

What animal would live in an aquatic environment?

• camel

• lion

• elephant

• whale

Multiple Choice

Changes in physical structure, function, or behavior that allow an organism or species to survive and reproduce in a given environment is called _.

• environment

• survive

• adaptation

• temperature

Multiple Choice

An environment is ....

• to stay alive

• changes in physical structure, function,or behavior that allow an organism or species to survive and reproduce in a given environment.

• a plant or animal

• the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal or plant lives or operates.

Multiple Choice

A measure of how hot or cold something is

• temperature

• environment

• habitat

• offspring

Multiple Choice

Turtles have a hard shell on the outside of their bodies. They can retreat and hide inside of their shell if they feel threatened.  Is this a physical or behavioral adaptation?

• Physical (or structural)

• Behavioral

Multiple Choice

When an animal imitates another animal to have the appearance of being threatening this is called mimicry.

True or False?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

When an organism can blend in to its background this is called _______________.

• mimicry

• environment

• camouflage

• habitat

Multiple Select

What type of physical adaptation helps the snow hare to survive in its environment?

• fur that changes from brown to white in the winter

• a thick undercoat that grows in during the winter

• the snow around it

Multiple Choice

True or False

The polar bear would easily adapt to life in the tropical rainforest.

• True

• False