Animal and Plant Defenses

What is an octopus defense mechanism?

• Swimming

• Squirting Ink

• Eating

• Sleeping

How does a porcupine defend itself?

• Rolling in a ball

• Quills

• Running Away

• ink

Why do animals have defense mechanisms?

• Protect themselves

• Find their family

• Jump

• To climb trees

Based off what you know about skunks, what are their defense mechanisms?

• Feeling

• Sound

• Smell!

• Sight

Thorns on a rose help

• make it hard for animals to eat it.

• attract bugs

• look cool

• insects hide inside of it.

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What does it mean when an animal camouflages?

• Blend in

• Run

• Swim

• Make a nest

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What are some ways animals and plants defend themselves?

• swords

• camouflage

• spikes and spines

• shells and armor

• venom and poison

Animal and plant offspring will defend themselves in the same way as their parents.

• True

• False

Defenses mechanisms help an animal________.

• get eaten

• not get eaten

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What is an example of a defense mechanism?

• camouflage

• spikes

• shells

• poison

• all of the above