Adaptations & Punnett Square

An example of a behavioral adaptation is

• The long neck of a giraffe
• Penguins huddling together for warmth
• A camel's hump used to store water
• A polar bear's white fur used for camouflage

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An example of a physical adaptation is...

• a turtle hiding inside its shell
• The spikes on a porcupine fish
• a rabbit burrowing underground
• a viper biting when threatened

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A penguin is white on its belly and black on its back so it harder to see underwater from above and below.

• Behavioral Adaptation
• Structural Adaptation

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When threatened, some animals make warning sounds to help other animals escape a predator.

• Behavioral Adaptation
• Structural Adaptation

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How do adaptations help animals?

• To escape animals
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

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Scientist who proposed the theory of natural selection

• Robert Hooke

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstein

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Structures or behaviors that help an
organism survive in its surroundings

• adaptations
• inherited traits
• learned behaviors
• structural behaviors

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Something that an organism does or the
way that an organism behaves or reacts

• traits
• structures
• behavior
• functions

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What are the two major types of adaptations?

• Physical and structural
• Structural and behavioral
• Learned and Inherited
• Heredity and Environment

T - tall and t = short
In the punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square

• tt
• Tt
• Bb
• TT

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