adaptation variation

What is an adaptation?

• A feature 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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How do adaptations help animals?

• to hide from predators
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

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An animal's color or pattern that helps it blend into its surroundings

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage
• Habitat

When an animal looks like another animal it is called ______________.

• camouflage
• mimicry
• warning coloration
• protective resemblance

Animals that have something they DO to live (hibernate, migrate, etc.) are exhibiting ____ adaptations.

• behavioral
• structural
• physiological
• assistive

A giraffe's long neck - used to reach leaves high in trees - is an example of a 

• instinct
• learned behavior
• behavioral adaptation
• physical adaptation

Biodiversity refers to ___.

• extinct species
• the variety of species on Earth
• nonrenewable resources
• the rate of species decline

Most adaptations that help an organism survive are passed on from parent to child as ____.

• behavioral adaptations
• inherited traits
• genetic variation
• none of the above

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Species with ____ variations are ____ likely to survive.

• more; less
• less; less
• less; more
• more; more

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Which of the following traits would most likely improve the chances that an organism will survive and reproduce?

• Small size makes it less likely a bull will find a mate
• A giraffe with a shorter neck is unable to reach high tree branches
• A common type of housefly develops resistance to insect poison
• A deaf leopard is unable to hear the approach of hunters

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