Behavioral Adaptations

Define Adaptation.

• How an organism has NOT changed and continues to live in an environment 

• All animals can live in any environment 

• How an organism grows over time

• Special features or behaviors that allow an animal to survive in an environment.

This animal uses camoflauge to ..

• hide

• hunt

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Using this picture, what defense is this Hawk Moth displaying?

• camouflage

• emitting smells

• mimicry

• panting

How an animal protects itself Adaptation: Skunk and its spray

• Defense

• Hibernation

• Locomotion

• Migration

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Traveling done by an animal to find food and water. 
Adaption: birds flying south for the winter

• Camouflage

• Migration

• Hibernation

• Locomotion

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What adaptation does this squirrel have that allows it to glide through the air?

• Extra skin under the arms and legs to capture air as it falls.

• Big ears to capture are as it falls

• Small eyes to see where it will land

• A short thin tail

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things organisms do to survive

• behavioral adaptations

• structural adaptations

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Some animals pretend to be dead to protect themselves from predators

• Structural

• Behavioral

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birds fly south

• behavioral adaptations

• structural adaptations

snakes are only active in the morning and at night

• structural adaptations

• behavioral adaptations