Physical and behavioural adaptation

What is an adaptation?

• A characteristic or behavior that helps an animal survive.

• The food that an animal eats.

• How energy moves in a food web.

• How animals evolve throughout time.

What do animals do when they migrate?

• They sleep all winter

• They live in a pond

• They move from one place to another

• They study birds

Which of these describes activities that an organism does in order to survive?

• Physical Adaptation

• Behavioral Adaptation

Bats are nocturnal and hunt at night.

• physical adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

Birds migrate to find food and warmer temperatures.

• physical adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

A polar bear has white fur to make it harder to see.

• physical adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

Ducks have webbed feet to help them swim in water.

• physical adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

Which of these best describes the parts or structures in the body of an organism to help it survive?

• Physical Adaptation

• Behavioral Adaptation

Traveling done by an animal to find food and water.

Adaption: birds flying south for the winter

• Camouflage

• Migration

• Hibernation

• Locomotion

_______ is to go into a long deep sleep-like state during winter.

• hibernation

• migration

• camouflage

• adaptation