Animal Adaptations - Mrs. Clark

What is MIMICRY?

• When a weak animal copies stronger animals to warn predators

• when you are the prey.

• when an animal hides in the cold winter and sleeps until the warm spring.

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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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Having brown fur is a(n)________ trait of an animal

• learned

• inherited

• developed

• behavioral

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To deal with shortage of food some animals

• migrate

• hunt for a different type of food

• camouflage

• sleep

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Birds have different beaks to help them survive in their habitat, which is a type of ___________ adaptation.

• behavioral

• physical

• learned

• migration

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Squirrels gather and store acorns for the winter, which is a ___________ adaptation.

• behavioral

• structural

• physical

• environmental

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Camouflage and mimicry are examples of ___________ adaptations.

• behavioral

• special

• physical

• predatory

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Hibernation, migration, and dormancy or all examples of ___________ adaptations.

• behavioral

• physical

• special

• environmental

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Both animals and people are born with ___________, like crying.

• instincts

• experiences

• adaptations

• dormancy

___________ is when animals go into a deep sleep causing their bodies to slow down.

• Mimicry

• Migration

• Dormancy

• Hibernation

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