Plant/Animal Adaptations and Behaviors

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.

Living things have two kinds of adaptations: __________________. Choose the best answer.

• behavioral and mental

• physical makeup and structural

• behavioral and structural

• thrive and survive

How do adaptations help animals?

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

Organisms' physical adaptations to their environment is called __________________________.

• behavioral adaptation

• psychological

• structural adaptation

• reproduction

An example of a physical adaptation is...

• a turtle hiding inside its shell
• The spikes on a porcupine fish
• a rabbit burrowing underground
• a viper biting when threatened

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

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage

Some animals move great distances as the seasons change.  What is this called?

• hibernation
• migration
• habitat
• coloration

Which is a learned behavior?

• A boy reading a book? 
• A goldfish being the color orange?
• A gecko lizard using its sticky feet to cling to a tree
• a butterfly sucking pollen

A lizard can change their body color from brown to bright green. This adaptation helps the lizard - 

• drink water from puddles
• keeps cool during a hot day
• climb trees
• hide from predators

An instinct it:

• a behavior that is learned

• a behavior that an animal begins life with

• something that a person buys