Vocabulary- Unit 2 Adaptations

A place or environment in which an organism naturally lives

• adaptation

• habitat

• mimicry

• reproduction

An inherited trait or learned behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings

• species

• adaptation

• mimicry

• habitat

A desert is a dry _________________. 

• competition
• protection
• environment
• alert

any animal that is hunted for food by another animal

• talon

• prey

• behavior

• mimicry

Any characteristic that helps a plant or animal survive.

• adaptation
• organism
• niche
• species

An organism that hunts and feeds on another organism.

• predator
• prey
• species
• niche

What does it mean to survive?

• stay alive
• let a predator eat you
• to revolve around the earth
• dissolves in water

Which animal below is a predator?

• Cow
• Horse
• Zebra
• Cheetah

Where an an animal or plant lives

• environment

• adaptation

• organism

• survival

an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form

• habitat

• adaptation

• organism

• survive