Interactive Science Gr 4 Ch3 L4

What word describes a physical feature or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• enviornment

• feature

• adaptation

• organism

What is an adaptation of the porcupine?

• It hunts its prey at night.

• It swims in the water to find its food.

• It has quills to protect its body.

• It stays underground its whole life.

What is an adaptation of the rabbit to survive in the winter?

• It changes from brown fur to white fur to blend in.

• It swims in the water to get away from predators.

• It eats carrots.

• It hides under people's homes.

What adaptation helps a chameleon catch its prey?

• It has scales on its back.

• It blends in with it's environment.

• It has a long tongue.

• It has sharp claws.

How do animals help spread seeds?

• They eat them and after they go through the digestive tract, they poop them out somewhere else.

• They flap their wings and the seeds fall off the flower.

• They peck them off the plant one at a time and drop them on the ground.

• They don't help spread seeds, humans do.

What word means a state of inactivity that helps some animals survive cold temperatures?

• hibernation

• adaptation

• enviornment

• comprehension

What word means the everything that surrounds a living thing.

• adaptation

• hibernation

• environment

• assessment

An animal's environment does not affect its adaptations.

• TRUE

• FALSE

All animals are adapted in the same way to help them survive.

• FALSE

• TRUE

How is a duck adapted to help it survive in its environment? Select all that apply.

• webbed feet

• feathers

• flat bill

• fangs