Animal Adaptations Vocabulary

How an animal's body or behavior helps it survive

• adaptation

• migration

• hibernation

• instinct

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An animal goes into a deep winter sleep

• migration

• hibernation

• instinct

• learned behavior

A behavior an animal is born with

• hibernation

• instinct

• learned behavior

• camouflage

A behavior that is taught

• learned behavior

• instinct

• camouflage

• mimicry

An animal's color that helps it blend into its environment

• shelter

• mimicry

• camouflage

• physical adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

An animal looks like something else in its environment

• camouflage

• mimicry

• shelter

• physical adaptation

A place where an animal raises its young, and protects itself from the weather and its enemies

• physical adaptation

• mimicry

• shelter

• behavioral adaptation

How an animal looks that helps it survive

• mimicry

• behavioral adaptation

• physical adaptation

• shelter

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Something an animal does that helps it survive

• physical adaptation

• shelter

• camouflage

• behavioral adaptation

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