What are physical and behavioral adaptations?

What is an adaptation?

• A characteristic 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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What do animals do when they migrate?

• They sleep all winter

• They live in a pond

• They move from one place to another

• They study birds

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Which of these describes activities that an organism does in order to survive?

• Physical Adaptation

• Behavioral Adaptation

Bats are nocturnal and hunt at night.

• physical adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

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Birds migrate to find food and warmer temperatures.

• physical adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

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Black bears hibernate during the winter months.

• physical adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

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A polar bear has white fur to make it harder to see.

• physical adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

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Ducks have webbed feet to help them swim in water.

• physical adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

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Which of these best describes the parts or structures in the body of an organism to help it survive?

• Physical Adaptation

• Behavioral Adaptation

Traveling done by an animal to find food and water.

Adaption: birds flying south for the winter

• Camouflage

• Migration

• Hibernation

• Locomotion