Animal Adaptations and Behaviors Vocabulary

A characteristic or change in an animal's body that helps it survive its habitat

• Physical Adaptation

• Migration

• Hibernation

• Camouflage

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Something an animal does or how it acts in order to stay alive

• Behavioral Adaptation

• Physical Change

• Genetic Mutation

• Environmental Factor

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A visual disguise; when the color of an animal changes to look like its surroundings

• Camouflage

• Migration

• Hibernation

• Photosynthesis

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Looking or sounding like another living organism

• Mimicry

• Photosynthesis

• Metamorphosis

• Camouflage

Behaviors that happen naturally

• Instinctive Behavior

• Learned Behavior

• Conditioned Response

• Voluntary Action

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Behaviors taught through observation

• Learned Behavior

• Inherited Trait

• Instinctive Response

• Genetic Behavior

When an animal sleeps during the cold days of winter

• Hibernation

• Migration

• Estivation

• Molting

When an animal travels long trips to find warmer weather

• Migration

• Hibernation

• Camouflage

• Photosynthesis

An animal that hunts and eats other animals for food

• Predator

• Herbivore

• Scavenger

• Prey

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An animal that is taken and eaten by another animal for food

• Prey

• Predator

• Producer

• Scavenger

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