Animal adaptions / characteristics

What is an adaptation?

• A feature that helps only a plant grow.

• A feature that helps a living thing survive.

• A feature that helps a living thing walk.

• A feature that that helps only animals survive.

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Behavioral adaptations are:

• Body parts that help a living thing survive in its environment
• Behaviors that help a living thing survive in its environment

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Physical adaptations are:

• Body parts that help a living thing survive in its environment
• Behaviors that help a living thing survive in its environment

Coloring or another physical characteristic that help an organism blend in with its environment

• mimicry
• camouflage
• hibernation
• migration

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When animals sleep during the winter, it is called...

• Dormancy

• Hibernation

• Camouflage

• Migration

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What does Migration mean?

• Animals move to a warmer place

• Animals sleep for the winter

• Animals blend into their surroundings

• Plants stop growing or changing

Using this picture, what defense is this Hawk Moth displaying?

• camouflage

• emitting smells

• mimicry

• breathing

A Viceroy butterfly looking like a bright colored poisonous Monarch butterfly is an example of __________.

• camouflage
• mimicry
• warning coloration
• protective resemblance

_______________ is when an animal blends into its environment.

• camouflage
• mimicry
• warning coloration

Which of the following could represent adaptations of prey?

• protective coverings, warning coloration, camouflage

• Migration, hibernation, increased speed

• sharp teeth and claws

• hibernation

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