Adaptations and Variation

What is an adaptation

• A feature, process, or behavior that helps an animal survive
• The food that an animal eats
• How energy moves in a food web
• The traits passed down from parents to offspring

How do adaptations help animals?

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

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

• They store twigs and sticks in their nest
• They migrate to warmer climates
• They grow more feathers to stay warm in the winter
• They hid in bushes and wait for warmer weather

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

• camouflage
• warning coloration
• mimicry
• hibernation

The period of reduced activity that occurs in some animals when temperatures are cold is called ____.

• hibernation
• estivation

An example of a physical adaptation is ____.

• a turtle hiding inside its shell
• the spikes on a porcupine fish
• a rabbit burrowing underground
• a viper biting when threatened

Why do some animals hibernate?

• The cold weather makes them sleepy
• To reduce the amount of energy they use in cold weather
• They have no one to play with
• To be prepared to hunt in the spring

When an animal imitates (looks or acts like) another animal it is called ____.

• camouflage
• mimicry
• warning coloration
• protective resemblance

A desert fox has LARGE ears. This is an example of ____.

• a behavioral adaptation
• a structural adaptation
• a physiological adaptation
• plastic surgery gone horribly wrong

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

• behavioral
• structural
• physiological
• assistive