Adaptation Vocabulary

A characteristic or change in an animals body that helps it survive in its habitat.

• Physical Adaptation

• Behavioral Adaptation

• Camouflage

• Mimicry

Something an animal does or hos it acts in order to stay alive.

• Physical Adaptation

• Behavioral Adaptation

• Camouflage

• Mimicry

A visual disguise; When the color of an animal changes to look like its surrounding.

• Physical Adaptation

• Behavioral Adaptation

• Camouflage

• Mimicry

Looking or sounding like another living organism.

• Physical Adaptation

• Behavioral Adaptation

• Camouflage

• Mimicry

Behaviors that happen naturally.

• instinctive behavior

• learned behavior

• hibernation

• migration

Behaviors taught through observation and experiencing their environment.

• instinctive behavior

• learned behavior

• hibernation

• migration

When an animal sleeps during the cold days of winter.

• instinctive behavior

• learned behavior

• hibernation

• migration

When animals travel long trips to find warmer weather, food supply, and a safe place to give birth to their young.

• instinctive behavior

• learned behavior

• hibernation

• migration

An animal that hunts and eats other animals for food.

• predator

• prey

An animal that is taken and eaten by another animal for food.

• predator

• prey