Adaptations

1. What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an animal survie.
• The food that an animal eats.
• How energy moves in a food web.

How do adaptations help animals?

• To hide from predators
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

How do adaptations help animals?

• To hide from predators
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

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

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage

This is a period of deep sleep that occurs in some animals when outside temperatures are cold: ______

• hibernation
• migration

 Which of these BEST describes how some birds survive when the weather gets cold? 

     

•  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 

Lions often hide in the tall grass while stalking their prey.  This is an example of...

• camouflage
• warning coloration
• mimicry
• hibernation

What is a characteristic, or feature of a plant or animal called?

• trait
• survive
• adaptation
• reproduce

This word means to stay alive.

• trait
• reproduce
• adaptation
• survive

Which is NOT a way seeds scatter

• water
• wind
• animals eat fruit and seeds are deposited
• lightning