Virginia Science SOL

1. What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an animal survie.
• The food that an animal eats.
• How energy moves in a food web.

This is a period of deep sleep that occurs in some animals when outside temperatures are cold: ______

• hibernation
• migration

How do adaptations help animals?

• To hide from predators
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

An animal's color or pattern that helps it blend into its surroundings

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage

A fungus is found growing on dead leaves on the forest floor. The fungus is an example of a -

• decomposer
• producer
• consumer

Anything that is living

• organism
• consumer
• habitat
• producer

Name a place that a plant or animal lives in its environment where its needs are met.

• energy
• extinct
• food chain
• habitat

An organism that no longer exists; They couldn’t adapt to environmental changes

• organism
• extinct
• food chain
• habitat

The way energy is passed from one organism to another

• food chain
• energy
• extinct
• habitat

Which one is NOT an example of a decomposer?

• mushroom
• leaves
• mold
• worm