Adaptation

What is an example of behavioral adaptation?

• Polar bears thick coats of fur to survive in cold environments

• Chipmunks hibernate during the winter

• Chameleons can change color to match their surroundings

• Cats have sharp claws to defend themselves from larger animals

A body part or behavior that helps a living thing survive in an environment is called a (n)

• Survival skill

• protection trait

• defense mechanism

• adaptation

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Which of the following can an animal learn by watching its parents?

• reflex

• an instinct

• a behavior

• a physical adaptation

Reading is a(n) ________________________.

• learned behavior

• inherited behavior

• reflex behavior

• none of the above

Charles Darwin was a naturalist famous for which law of nature?

• Every Living thing Adapts

• Only the Strong Survive

• Life Will Find a Way

• Survival of the Fittest

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If a climate gradually warms over five hundred thousand years, what might happen to animals that live there?

• They develop physical adaptations to adjust to the changing climate.

• They will learn new behaviors to adjust to the changed climate

• They will move to an area with a different climate.

• All of the above

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A monkey's tail can grip branches is a __________________.

• behavior adaptation

• physical adaptation

• reflex

• none of the above

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A horse automatically sneezes when dust gets in his nose is a ____________________.

• physical characteristic

• learned behavior

• reflex

• none of the above

Read this sentence: A salmon swims upstream by instinct to lay its eggs. What does instinct mean in this sentence?

• no longer in existence

• behavior learned from watching others

• behavior inherited from its parents

• common sense

Suppose a new predator ws introduced to an environment. What would most likely happen first to the prey animals? They ______________________.

• develop a physical adaptation to defend themselves

• develop a new behavior to defend themselves

• have a sharp increase in population

• become predators