Mrs Nerg

_____  helps an animal get food, protect itself, move, or reproduce

• adaptation
• instincts

A trait that helps a living thing survive.

• instinct
• mimicry
• camouflage
• adaptation

What are the two major types of adaptations?

• Physical and structural
• Structural and behavioral
• Learned and Inherited
• Heredity and Environment

The colors & patterns on a turtles shell help it blend in with the forest floor.  This is:

• hibernation.
• behavior.
• migration.
• camouflage.

A plant absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen.

• Nutrition

• Excretion

• Respiration

• Reproduction

Respiration is the process by which ______ is produced.

Excretion is:

• how a living thing gets rid of waste products.

• how a living thing uses food for energy.

• how a living thing makes more of its species, e.g. babies or seeds.

• how a living thing detects a threat in the environment.

Which of the following is an adaptation that helps a seal survive in the COLD?

• blubber
• body shape
• skin color
• sharp teeth

When a group of organs work together to perform a particular function they create a/an

• organ system
• organism
• tissue
• organ

The basic unit of structure and function in the human body is the....

• organ
• organ system
• cell
• tissue