Natural Selection/Adaptation

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.

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How do adaptations help animals?

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

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

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage
• Habitat

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

• A behavioral adaptation
• Poor breeding
• A physical adaptation
• Plastic surgery gone horribly wrong

When an animal looks like another animal it is called ______________.

• camouflage
• mimicry
• warning coloration
• protective resemblance

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

• instinct
• learned behavior
• behavioral adaptation
• physical adaptation

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What would a bird's foot look like if it spent its time in the water?

• Sharp talons and claws
• Short stubby toes
• Webbing between the toes
• Long graceful fingers

Canada geese travel north when the weather gets warm in the spring. Then they travel south when it gets cold in the late fall. Suppose that the spring temperature stayed cold two weeks longer than usual. How would that change the behavior of the geese?

• They would not travel north at all. 
• They would travel north at the usual time.
• They would travel north about two weeks later.
• They would travel north about two weeks earlier. 

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Which of the following is a physical adaptation for the underlined animal?

• A snake unhinges its jaw to eat a rabbit it just caught.
• A hognose snake rolls over, slows its breathing, and hangs its tongue out to pretend to be dead.
• A herd of buffalo encircle their young to protect them from a pack of wolves.
• A dung beetle rolls a piece of dung across the desert.

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The goal of every species on earth is...

• to survive and reproduce 
• divide and conquer 
• survive and conquer 
• reproduce and die 

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