Plant and Animal Adaptations Study Guide

______ is when an animal blends with its surroundings.

• migrate

• hibernate

• camouflage

An animal's color or pattern that helps it blend into its surroundings

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage

What tree in the coastal plains has needles instead of leaves?

What will happen to animals if they are unable to find food?

Will they starve, die, or both?

• starve

• die

• both

Which animal can adapt and live in all the regions of Georgia?

• deer

• fish

What will happen when a plant is taken from its home to another location?

What will happen to animals that live in wooden areas and now have no wooded areas? Will they move to another location?

• Yes, they will move to another location for food and shelter.

• No, they will stay until they starve and die.

• Yes, but they will die in the new location.

• No, they will just eat new food and find new shelter.

TRUE or FALSE: Wolves hunt in packs.

• True

• False

Which would survive best in a mountain habitat?

• pelican

• fish

• cow

• rabbit

Match the following

• Adaptations

• is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else

• Migration

• seasonal movement of animals from one region to another

• Mimicry

• a change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment

• Camouflage

• the condition or period of an animal or plant spending the winter in a dormant state

• Hibernation

• the close external resemblance of an animal or plant (or part of one) to another animal, plant, or inanimate object