Physical and Behavioral Adaptations

What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an animal survive.
• The food that an animal eats.
• How energy moves in a food web.
• How animals evolve throughout time.

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How do adaptations help animals?

• to hide from predators
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

An animal's color or pattern that helps it blend into its surroundings

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage
• Habitat

The ears of this fox are an example of...

• A behavioral adaptation
• Poor breeding
• A physical adaptation
• Plastic surgery gone horribly wrong

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A giraffe's long neck - used to reach leaves high in trees - is an example of a 

• instinct
• learned behavior
• behavioral adaptation
• physical adaptation

What is camouflage? 

• Colors or markings to make it look like something else
• A chemical that is used to defend itself
• A hard shell or covvering
• Body patterns or coloring that make it hard to see

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_____ is a physical feature or behavior that helps an animal get food, protect itself, move, or reproduce

• adaptation
• Behavioral

Birds migrate (move to) a warmer place during winter.

• Structural
• Behavioral

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Penguins huddle close together to keep warm.

• Structural
• Behavioral

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The praying mantis looks very much like a blade of grass. What is it called when animals look like other animals or plants?

• camouflage
• mimicry
• locomotion
• hibernation