Adaptations and Life Cycles

Structures or behaviors that help an
organism survive in its surroundings

• adaptations
• inherited traits
• learned behaviors
• structural behaviors

Something that an organism does or the
way that an organism behaves or reacts

• traits
• structures
• behavior
• functions

The “job” that a body part does in an
organism

• function
• trait
• logical
• structure

A penguin is white on its belly and black on its back so it harder to see underwater from above and below.

• Behavioral Adaptation
• Physical Adaptation

Occurring in the night

• logical
• structural
• function
• nocturnal

Things that an organism knows or senses
without having to be taught

• structural behaviors
• structural adaptations
• instincts
• non-instinctive behaviors

Characteristics of an organism

• adaptations
• traits
• functions
• instincts

Behaviors that an animal develops by
observing other animals or by being
taught

• learned behaviors
• structural behaviors
• inherited behaviors
• no behaviors

Characteristics that are passed from
parents to their offspring

• broken leg
• structures
• behaviors
• inherited traits

Traveling done by an animal to find food and water. 
Adaption: birds flying south for the winter

• Camouflage
• Migration
• Hibernation
• Locomotion