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