Adaptations Review

Which adaptation of black bears best helps them survive cold winters?

• Having a large home range
• Being able to hibernate
• Eating both plants and animals
• Having sharp teeth and claws

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The diagram below shows the beaks of five species of birds that developed over time from one parent species. The five species of birds can be found living in the same area. Which of the following best explains why the beak shape of each species of bird developed differently?
  

• Each beak shape helps the birds to produce different songs.
• Each beak shape is an adaptation to a specific source of food.
• Each beak shape is designed to construct a different type of nest.
• Each beak shape helps protect the birds from a different predator.

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An example of a structural adaptation is...

• a turtle hiding inside its shell
• The spikes on a porcupine fish
• a rabbit burrowing underground
• a viper biting when threatened

Which feature helps an animal hide from other animals?

• looking like a dangerous animal
• being the same color as the place it lives (camoflauge)
• having sharp claws or a strong shel
• having only a few young and caring for them

What does it mean to reproduce?

• to eat things
• to make things pretty
• to produce energy
• to produce new living things

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A trait that helps a living thing survive.

• instinct
• mimicry
• camouflage
• adaptation

The space, conditions and all the living and non-living things around an organism is its _________________.

• home
• environment
• neighborhood
• ecosystem

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An animal that is hunted as food

• prey
• predator
• decomposer
• producer

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A giraffe's long neck - used to reach leaves high in trees - is an example of a 

• behavioral adaptation
• structural adaptation

Birds migrate (move to) a warmer place during winter is an example of a __________.

• Structural adaptation
• Behavioral adaptation