Science Review

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.

Why is it important for you animals to use camouflage?

• it warns predators to stay away
• it startles them with a flash of color
• it makes them look dead so predators won't eat them
• it hides them from predators while their parents are away

Some animals use mimicry. This means they

• imitate other animals or plants
• make loud sounds
• steal from other animals

An animal lacking a backbone

• Invertebrate
• Vertebrate

An animal with a backbone

• Invertebrate
• Vertebrate

If an animal migrates then they

• find a hole to sleep in
• change the color of their fur
• travel to a warmer location

Animals that adapt...

• Stay the same
• Change certain characteristics to survive
• Bake cookies

What does it mean to hibernate?

• To change your physical characteristics
• To sleep for an extended period of time during the winter
• To travel to a warmer location
• To eat all the oreos

Animals hibernate in ______________.

• winter
• spring
• summer
• fall

What do you call an inherited BEHAVIOR?

• inherited trait
• learned behavior
• instinct
• dominant gene