Adaptations/natural selectio

An adaptation is

• Evolution

• Traits/ inherited characteristics (physical or behavioral) to help an organism survive

• Where organisms are adapted to their environment and pass their genes to their offspring

• variation

Natural selection is

• Evolution

• A living organism adapts by forming a physical characteristic or body part that helps it survive in its environment.

• mutation

• The process where organisms are more adapted over time and reproduce/pass down traits to survive.

Name the adaptation type: Monkeys tail helps it hold onto trees

• physical

• behavioral

A rabbit burrows ( Goes underground) to hide from predators

• Behavioral

• physical

A Hawk uses its eyes to see a mouse from the sky.

• Behavioral

• physical

A Polar Bear hibernates (periods of sleep) in the winter to store energy.

• behavioral

• physical

A polar bear can smell with its nose a seal miles deep under the sea ice.

• behavioral

• physical

Birds migrate from North to South America

• Behavioral adaptation

• Physical adaptation

When a species gradually changes over time and can become a new species.

• Evolution

• natural selection

• adaptations

English naturalist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)

• Mozart

• Charles Darwin

• Galileo