Adaptations

5.10A Animal Adaptations: Behavioral

Behavioral Adaptations

These are things animal do to survive.

They are ACTIONS.

Multiple Choice

___ are behaviors or physical characteristics that help an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.

• Biomes

• Roots

• Nocturnal

• Adaptations

Multiple Choice

Changing clothes depending on the weather is...

• a structural adaptation

• a behavioral adaptation

Web spinning

Spiders spin webs and this behavior allows them to catch food

Hibernating

Some animals go into a deep sleep during the winter to save energy such as bears and some squirrels

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to hibernate?

• To change your physical characteristics

• To sleep for an extended period of time during the winter to save energy

• To travel to a warmer location

• To blend in with the environment

Migrating

Animals move to places with better conditions to survive.

An example is birds in North America flying south for the winter to keep warm.

Multiple Choice

Possums play dead to trick their predators - is this a behavioral adaptation or a physical adaptation?

• Behavioral adaptation

• Physical adaptation

Multiple Choice

Human shiver when they are cold or pull away from extremely hot objects to avoid getting burned.

• physical

• behavioral

Multiple Choice

Some birds will make a warning sound to alert their flock if there is danger.

• physical

• behavioral

Multiple Choice

Meerkats do a "war dance" to ward off predators.

• physical

• behavioral

Multiple Choice

Birds migrate to find food and warmer temperatures.

• physcial

• behavioral

Multiple Choice

Bats are nocturnal and hunt at night.

• physcial

• behavioral

Multiple Choice

Some adaptations of a hawk are illustrated here.
Which of these adaptations most help the hawk keep other hawks out of its territory by warning them from far away?

• Brown head
• Loud call
• Hollow bones
• Sharp claws