Adaptations Vocabulary

A characteristic or change in an animal's body that helps it survive in its habitat.

• physical adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

• inherited

• migration

something an animal does or how it acts in order to stay alive

• migration

• environment

• hibernation

• behavioral adaptation

behavior that happens naturally

• learned behavior

• instinctive behavior

• behavioral adaptation

• camouflage

when an animal sleeps during the cold days of winter (a state of rest)

• migration

• hibernation

• adaptation

• mimicry

everything that surrounds a living thing

• stimulus

• migration

• environment

• mimicry

when the color of an animal changes to look like its surroundings

• mimicry

• camouflage

• adaptation

• hibernation

looking or sounding like another living organism

• mimicry

• stimulus

• hibernation

• adaptation

to receive characteristics from an organisms parents

• learned behavior

• instinctive behavior

• mimicry

• inherited

behavior taught through observation

• learned behavior

• instinctive behavior

• behavioral adaptation

• physical adaptation

when an animal travels long trips to find warmer weather

• migration

• hibernation

• stimulus

• mimicry