DOL- Behavioral Adaptations

A characteristic or trait that helps an organism survive in its environment is a/an ​ ​ (a)  

• adaptation
• skill
• variation
• natural instinct

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Variation in​ (a)   would best help bison survive a harsh winter

• fur thickness
• Leg length
• Hearing quality
• Hoof size

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A resting state through the winter.

Adaptation: Bear sleeping in a cave during the winter months

• Locomotion

• Hibernation

• Migration

• Defense

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Octopus changes its own colors to blend in with the sand

• Camouflage

• Webbed Feet

• Pretend Play

• Mimicry

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What is a behavioral adaptation?

• beak on a bird

• elephants ears

• hump on a camel

• birds flying South in the winter.

Most desert plants have spines. How does this adaptation help them survive in a harsh environment?

• The spines capture water
• The spines make it colder
• The spines will make it rain
• The spines will protect the plant from animals that want to eat it

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What adaptation does this squirrel have that allows it to glide through the air?

• Extra skin under the arms and legs to capture air as it falls.
• Big ears to capture are as it falls
• Small eyes to see where it will land
• A short thin tail

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

• Behavioral Adaptation
• Structural Adaptation

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A penguin is white on its belly and black on its back so it harder to see underwater from above and below.

• Behavioral Adaptation
• Structural Adaptation

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In early December, the right whale travels from the North Atlantic to the ocean near Georgia in order to give birth in the warm and relatively calm waters off the coast. Which term describes this behavioral adaptation?

• hibernation

• classical conditioning

• estivation

• migration