How do adaptations help plants and animals live in the Mojave Desert? Select the three correct answers.

• Adaptations help plants and animals find mates.

• Adaptations help plants and animals reproduce.

• Adaptations help plants and animals change the weather from hot to cool.

• Adaptations help plants and animals stay alive in hot and dry weather.

Tim tells Mark that snakes are able to survive in the Mojave Desert. Mark disagrees. Which two statements best support Tim's claim?

• A snake's coloring is adapted to blend into its environment and help it survive.

• All snakes have the same traits and can live in any environment.

• Different animals are adapted to live in similar habitats.

• Snakes are covered in scales that help them move over hot desert sand.

A bear's fur is __________.

• a habitat

• an adaptation

• an environment

• a trait

A bear's fur helps the bear stay warm so that it can _________ and _________ .

• survive and reproduce

• hibernate and sleep

• pollinate and make honey

Select all the adaptations that would most likely be suited for the Ocean habitat

• gills

• fur

• fin

• beak

Select all the adaptations that would most likely be suited for the Forest habitat

• gills

• fur

• fin

• beak

Phoebe's parents planted four orange trees at the same time 15 years ago. Phoebe is now writing a paper about the growth of the trees. In the paper, she argues that two of the trees have traits that give them a better chance of surviving than the other two trees.

Which TWO trees that have the best chance of surviving?

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This is a picture of a wetland. Fill in the blank

The bass and heron both have ___________ on their bodies that helps them survive in a wetland habitat.

• waterproof skin

• feathers

• webbed feet

• fins

This is a picture of a wetland. Fill in the blank

The bass has ___________ that allow the fish to breathe underwater.

• gills

• scales

• lungs

• fins

This is a picture of a wetland. Fill in the blank

The heron has ___________ that allow the fish that help it to wade through water.

• wings

• scales

• fins

• webbed feet