Animal Adaptations Vocab

What is an example of an adaptation?

• An elephant walks

• A dog sits

• A lion has sharp teeth

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An animal that is taken and eaten by another animal for food.

• Predator

• Adaptation

• Learned Behavior

• Prey

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Behaviors taught through observation and experiencing their environment.

• Instinctive Behavior

• Learned Behavior

• Mimicry

• Physical Adaptation

A visual disguise; When the color of an animal changes to look like its surrounding

• Camouflage

• Mimicry

• Instinctive Behavior

• Behavioral Adaptation

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A characteristic or change in an animals body that helps it survive in its habitat

• Learned Behavior

• Instinctive Behavior

• Physical Adaptation

• Behavioral Adaptation

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looking or sounding like another living organism

• Hibernation

• Mimicry

• Prey

• Behavioral Adaptation

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Something an animal does or how it acts in order to stay alive

• Sleep

• Learned Behavior

• Breathe

• Behavioral Adaptation

When an animal sleeps during the cold days of winter

• Chill out

• Mimicry

• Hibernation

• Instinctive Behavior

Behaviors that happen naturally

• Instinctive Behavior

• Learned Behavior

• Eating

• Hibernation

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When animals travel long trips to find warmer weather, food supply, and a safe place to give birth to their young

• Hibernation

• Flying

• Physical Adaptation

• Migration

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