Adaptations Vocabulary Review

1. Change in structure or habits (behavior), often hereditary, where an organism improves its condition in relationship to its environment.

• Competition
• Migration
• Hibernation
• Adaptation

2. A defense or tactic that organisms use to blend in with their surroundings.

• Migration
• Competition
• Camouflage
• Estivation

3. A tool used to identify species of organisms using opposing observable characteristics.

• Dichotomous Key
• Dormant
• Population
• Estivation

4. The state of having normal physical functions stopped or slowed down for a period of time. (Deep sleep)

• Migration
• Dormant
• Competition
• Estivation

5. The condition of an animal or plant spending the winter in a dormant state. (Bears do this in the winter.)

• Hibernation
• Migration
• Camouflage
• Population

6. Seasonal movement of animals from one region to another.

• Hibernation
• Estivation
• Competition
• Migration

7. The process in nature where the living things that are best suited to (fit in with) their environment survive and reproduce in greater numbers, while those less adapted die out. (Also called survival of the fittest.)

• Natural Selection
• Selective Breeding
• Adaptation
• Competition

8. All members of a species in a particular area at a particular time.

• Camouflage
• Migration
• Dormant
• Population

9. The way in which a living organism or bodily part functions.

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Physiology
• Structure

10. Making deliberate crosses of plants or mating of animals, so the offspring will have a desired characteristic derives from one of the parents.

• Variation
• Selective Breeding (Artificial Selection)
• Structure
• Physiology