Adaptations and Traits

A body part or behavior that helps a living thing survive

• adaption

• behavior

• learned behavior

• instinct

A behavior that an animal doesn't begin life with but starts doing because of experience or watching another animal

• adaptation

• behavior

• learned behavior

• instinct

To go into a deep sleep to stay alive during the winter

• hibernate

• migrate

• nap

• mimicry

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To move from one place to another in search of food, water, or warmer temperatures

• hibernate

• migrate

• move

• camouflage

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When an animal looks like an animals that is poisonous or that taste bad to avoid being eaten (Think about the Monarch butterfly and the Viceroy Butterfly)

• hiberate

• migrate

• camouflage

• mimicry

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Tigers have ______________ teeth for tearing meat.

• sharp

• flat

A horse has _____________ teeth for eating grass.

• sharp

• flat

An example of a physical adaptation is...

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

What something is used for; purpose

• Function

• Habitat

• Inherited traits

• Learned behaviors

Which of the following is an example of a behavioral adaptation?

• fins

• hibernation

• sharp teeth

• camouflage