Investigating Plant and Animal 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.

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

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage

 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 

Some animals move great distances as the seasons change.  What is this called?

• hibernation
• migration
• habitat
• coloration

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

• camouflage
• warning coloration
• mimicry
• hibernation

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

• hibernation
• migration

What do you call an animal that is hunted by another animal?

• prey
• predator
• producer
• herbivore

Any physical structure (body part or covering) or behavior that helps an animal survive:

• habitat
• instinct
• fur
• adaptation

An animal that hunts other animals for food is called a ...?

• prey animal
• herbivore
• predator
• producer

Migration and hibernation are examples of...

• a behavioral adaptation.
• a structural adaptation.
• a physical adaptation.
• a result of the sun.