Adaptation Terms

a change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment. Different from instint.

• Adaptation

• Adoption

• Adoration

• Alteration

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is an adaptation in which one organism looks like another

• Twinning

• Mimicry

• Copy

• predator

A behavioral adaptation in the winter when the animal becomes inactive and its metabolism changes is?

• Hiding

• Wading

• Hibernation

are wild animals that hunt or prey on other animals

• Dominance

• Predator

• Prey

disguising of something by covering it6 up or changing the way it looks. Example, Leopard has spots

• Camouflage

• Masking

• Hiding

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Walk through (something filled with water). For example, long legged birds found along the shoreline

• surfing

• wading

• swimming

the process of restoring or replacing damaged or missing cells, tissues, organs, or even entire body parts.

• Mimicry

• Camouflage

• Regeneration

power or influence over other

• Dominance

• Deliverance

• Powerless

An adaptation of an organism's body or coloring

• Structural adaptation

• Physical

• Biological

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Is something that causes a response or reaction Example, sunlight to a plant growth

• Wading

• Stagnation

• Stimulus

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