Unit 8

What is an adaptation?

• The way an organisms changes to survive in their environment

• A trait and organism gets to survive in its environment

• A trait an organisms inherits to survive in its environment

• A mutation that creates a new organism

Which of the following is not an example of a structural adaptation?

• Camouflage

• The ability to change color

• webbed feet

• sharp teeth

What is the definition of a behavioral adaptation?

• a learned behavior that helps an organism survive

• a physical characteristic that helps an organism survive

• an organism's internal response to an external stimulus

• an inherited behavior that helps an organism survive

Organisms can adapt to their environment

• True

• False

Check all of the following that are physiological adaptations

• Slowing bodily functions during hibernation

• Producing venom

• Camouflage

• Changing fur color in response to temperature changes

A bulb is...

• the reproductive organ of a plant

• Food/energy storage for a plant

• The root of a plant

• The location of photosynthesis in a plant

Natural selection occurs in one generation

• True

• False

A dichotomous key always give you how many options?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Selective breeding produces --

• organisms to are better suited to their enviornment

• organisms that are more likely to survive and reproduce

• organisms that are hybrids

• organisms that have traits that humans desire

Species are organisms that --

• are very similar

• can reproduce together

• can reproduce and produce fertile offspring

• Get along with each other