Variations Notes

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Multiple Choice

What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an animal survive.

• The food that an animal eats.

• How energy moves in a food web.

• How animals evolve throughout time.

Multiple Choice

How do adaptations help animals?

• to hide from predators

• to hunt for food

• to survive in their habitats

• All of these are correct

Multiple Choice

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

• Environment 

• Camouflage

• Habitat

Multiple Choice

The ears of this fox are an example of...

• A behavioral adaptation

• Poor breeding

• A physical adaptation

• Plastic surgery gone horribly wrong

Multiple Choice

A giraffe's long neck - used to reach leaves high in trees - is an example of a 

• instinct

• learned behavior

• behavioral adaptation

• physical adaptation

Multiple Choice

CAUSES of extinction include....

• disease, predation, competition, global catastophe

• when all animals of a species become extinct

Multiple Choice

This is a state of inactivity that occurs in some animals when outside temperatures are cold: ______

• hibernation

• migration

Multiple Choice

Animals that have something they DO to live (hibernate, migrate, etc.) are exhibiting ____ adaptations.

• behavioral

• structural

• physiological

• assistive

Multiple Choice

Biodiversity refers to ___.

• extinct species

• the variety of species on Earth

• nonrenewable resources

• the rate of species decline

Multiple Choice

Most adaptations that help an organism survive are passed on from parent to child as ____.

• behavioral adaptations

• inherited traits

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

Species with ____ variations are ____ likely to survive.

• more; less

• less; more

• more; more

Multiple Choice

Which word means things that are taught rather than inherited?

• mimicry

• learned behaviors

• habitat

• instincts

Multiple Choice

All of these finches have different shaped beaks, they are an adaptation to gain access of 

• Water

• Food

• Shelter