Animal Adaptations

1. What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an animal survie.
• The food that an animal eats.
• How energy moves in a food web.

This is a period of deep sleep that occurs in some animals when outside temperatures are cold: ______

• hibernation
• migration

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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Why do some animals hibernate?

• The cold weather makes them sleepy.
• Their food supply is smaller in the winter.
• They have no one to play with.

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

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage

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

     

•  a.   They store twigs and sticks in their nest 
•  b. They migrate to a warmer climate 
•  c. They grow more feathers to stay warm in the winter 
•  d. They hide in bushes and wait for warm weather 

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

• hibernation
• migration
• habitat
• coloration

A wasp beetle has the same body markings as a wasp.  this helps the wasp beetle because predators think it's a wasp.  This adaptation is called...?

• behavior
• countershading
• camouflage
• mimicry

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Which example below is an behavioral adaptation?

• A seal's layer of blubber keeps it warm.
• A pack of worlves case a moose.
• A cheetah's spots make it hard to see.
• A turtle's shell protects it from predators.

A baby turtle crawling towards the ocean right after it's born is called?

• mimicry

• camouflage

• instinct behavior

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