Animal Adaptations

What is adaptation?

• The animal that eats another animal for food.

• Where an animal lives.

• A behavior or feature that helps an animal survive.

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What do you call the period of deep sleep an animal goes into whenever it is very cold.

• migration

• cave

• hibernation

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An example of a physical, or structural, adaptation is...

• The humps on a camel's back

• A turtle hiding in its shell

• A rattlesnake biting when it is threatened

• A rabbit burrowing underground

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How do adaptations help animals?

• Adaptations help animals hide from predators.

• Adaptations help animals hunt for food.

• Adaptations help animals to survive in their habitat.

• All of the above answers are correct.

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Some animals hibernate in the winter because...

• The cold makes them sleepy

• Food is scarce in the winter

• They have no one to play with

• They do not like to be cold

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What do you call an animal's color or pattern that helps it blend into its environment?

• mimicry

• survival of the fittest

• smart

• camouflage

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

• exercise

• movement

• locomotion

• migration

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Which adaptation would NOT help a hawk catch a mouse?

• good eye sight

• hollow bones

• camouflage

• talons

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

• They hide in the bushes and wait for the weather to get warmer

• They store twigs and grass in their nests

• They grow more feathers to stay warm in the winter

• They migrate to warmer weather

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Lions often hide in the tall grass when they stalk their prey. This is an example of...

• mimicry

• hibernation

• migration

• camouflage

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