Adaptations

A trait or change in lifestyle that helps a plant or animal survive in its environment

• adaptation

• evolution

• mitosis

• osmosis

Which of the following is a physical adaptation for the underlined animal?

• A snake has a large jaw to eat a rabbit it just caught.

• A hognose snake rolls over, slows its breathing, and hangs its tongue out to pretend to be dead.
• A herd of buffalo encircle their young to protect them from a pack of wolves.
• A dung beetle rolls a piece of dung across the desert.

How do adaptations help animals?

• to hide from predators
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

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Adaptations can be...

• A. Random errors

• B. Behavior Traits

• C. Both B and D

• D. Phyisical characteristics

A founding scientist wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  
• become extinct
  

Genetic differences between organisms of the same species

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Behavior
• Environment

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Birds are eating all the green beetles. Because the brown beetles are surviving they reproduce more and make more brown beetles. This is called ___________

• Artificial Selection

• The Theory on the Origin of Species

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

Parrots have special feet, with two toes on the front and back to help them cling to branches.

• Behavioral Adaptation
• Structural Adaptation

When threatened, some animals make warning sounds to help other animals escape a predator.

• Behavioral Adaptation
• Structural Adaptation

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What can happen to a species over time if some of the organisms have an advantage?

• The population will decrease
• The population will become extinct
• The population will slowly increase