Adaptations

Why do animals use camouflage?

• To look pretty
• To stay safe
• To play Hide and Go Seek
• To eat food

Adaptation: Bear sleeping in a cave during the winter months

• Physical Adaptation

• Behavioral Adaptation

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Color or pattern that helps an animal blend in with its habitat

Adaptation: Tulip-Tree Beauty Moth

• Hibernation

• Behavior Adaptation

• Camouflage

• Migration

When an opossums plays dead. This is known as what type of adaptation?

• Physical adaptation

• Behavioral adaptation

A kangaroo has a pouch to protect its young. This is known as what type of adaptation?

• Physical Adaptation

• Behavioral Adaptation

What is an adaptation?

• A physical feature or behavior that helps living things survive.

• The food that an animal eats.

• A place where an animal lives

• How animals evolve throughout time.

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Birds migrate during the winter to less cold areas. What type of adaptation is this?

• Behavioral Adapatation

• Physical Adaptation

Why is a spider spinning a web an innate behavior?

• It learns how to spin the web from its mother.
• It learns how to spin a web through insight learning.  
• It is born knowing how to spin a web.
• It learns how to spin a web through observational learning.

What do we call a behavior that is learned from observations?

• inherited behaviors

• learned behaviors

• imprinting

• acquired traits

Behaviors that are passed on from parents to offspring without teaching or training are called what?

• inherited or innate behaviors

• learned behaviors

• acquired traits

• imprinted behaviors