4th Grade Animal Adaptations

A body part or behavior that helps an organism meet its needs in its environment. Developed over many generations in response to the environment.

• Instinct

• Adaptation

• Camouflage

• Variation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

An animal's color or pattern that helps it blend in with its surroundings.

• Camouflage

• Migration

• Variation

• Extinction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Everything that surrounds and affects an animal.

• Hibernation

• Adaptation

• Trait

• Environment

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

A behavior that an animal begins life with.

• Trait

• Instinct

• Environment

• Adaptation

A behavior that an animal begins life with.

• Learn

• Migration

• Instinct

• Trait

The movement of a group of one type of animal from one region to another and back again.

• Migrations

• Hibernation

• Behavior

• Adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A period of time when an animal goes into a long sleep, usually to avoid cold weather and conserve energy

• Adaptation

• Instinct

• Hibernation

• Environment

A characteristic or property of an organism.

• Adaptation

• Instinct

• Trait

• Extinction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

o gain knowledge or a skill (behavior) by study, experience, or being taught

• Learn

• Trait

• Extinct

• Adaptation

A different form of a feature of the same kind of living thing

• Adaptation

• Variation

• Extinction

• Migration

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4